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都江堰

Mandarin · pinyin Dū jiāng yàn

Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site
see 都江堰市 Dū jiāng yàn Shì

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都: dōu · dū · metropolis, capital; all, the whole; elegant, refined
江: jiāng · large river; the Yangzi; surname
堰: yàn · dam; embankment, dike, bank

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1–1–4 · Du1 jiang1 yan4

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Dujiangyan (an irrigation system)
(～市) Dujiangyan City (a county-level city of Chengdu, Sichuan, southwestern China)

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