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跑馬燈

简跑马灯 · 繁跑馬燈

Mandarin · pinyin pǎo mǎ dēng

lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節 Yuán xiāo jié
chaser lights
self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker

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跑: pǎo · run, flee, leave in hurry
馬: Look up this written character
燈: dēng · lantern, lamp
马: mǎ · horse; surname; Kangxi radical 187
灯: dēng · lantern, lamp

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3–3–1 · pao3 ma3 deng1

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text marquee
news ticker; news crawl

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