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Examples
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“By and by you must be called Ssu Erh, (fourth child),” Pao-yü suggested, “for there’s no need for any such nonsense as Hui Hsiang (orchid fragrance) or Lan
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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"By and by you must be called Ssu Erh, (fourth child)," Pao-yü suggested, "for there's no need for any such nonsense as Hui Hsiang
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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A group of riders mentioned by Kuo Ssu embodies the true appearance of riders; we learn nothing of what they are doing, where they came from, or where they are going.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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A group of riders mentioned by Kuo Ssu embodies the true appearance of riders; we learn nothing of what they are doing, where they came from, or where they are going.
Shan-shui 2009
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And I am now a Ssu Tuan, or Fourth Dan as the more Japanese styles would have it.
Tests Walter Jon Williams 2008
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And I am now a Ssu Tuan, or Fourth Dan as the more Japanese styles would have it.
Archive 2008-03-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008
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Yen Ssu-tsi. brought 3,000 chinese immigrants over to Taiwan in 1621.
Archive 2006-08-01 Michael Turton 2006
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Yen Ssu-tsi. brought 3,000 chinese immigrants over to Taiwan in 1621.
July Meet Up Summary Michael Turton 2006
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Pound's Sinology is, as I remember, is heavily reliant in a History of China by the XVIIIc Jesuit missionary Joseph Marie Anne de Moyriac de Mailla, which in turn was heavily reliant on Ssu-ma Kuang's synoptic history with its notable Confucian slant.
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Hence it was that bidding Ssu Erh trim the candles and brew the tea, he himself perused for a time the “Nan Hua Ching,” and upon reaching the precept:
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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