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郭小川

Mandarin · pinyin Guō Xiǎo chuān

Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution

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郭: guō · outer part (of a city); surname
小: xiǎo · small, tiny, insignificant
川: chuān · stream, river; flow; boil

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1–3–1 · Guo1 Xiao3 chuan1

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