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宫

Traditional: 宮

gōng ㄍㄨㄥ

  1. palace
  2. temple
  3. castration (as corporal punishment)
  4. first note in pentatonic scale

Sources

  • CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • pinyinjs, Apache-2.0

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