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郭沫若

Mandarin · pinyin Guō Mò ruò

Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik

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郭: guō · outer part (of a city); surname
沫: mò · froth, foam, bubbles, suds
若: ruò · if, supposing, assuming; similar

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1–4–4 · Guo1 Mo4 ruo4

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