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黃鶴樓
简 黄鹤楼 · 繁 黃鶴樓Mandarin · pinyin Huáng hè Lóu
Meanings
- Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985
- favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes
- Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥 Cuī Hào, with theme 'the past will never return'
- one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓 Yuè yáng Lóu in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣 Téng wáng Gé in Nanchang, Jiangxi
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2–4–2 · Huang2 he4 Lou2
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- Yellow Crane Tower
- (～街道) Huanghelou (a subdistrict of Wuchang district, Wuhan, Hubei, China)
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