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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

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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

  • And I am now a Ssu Tuan, or Fourth Dan as the more Japanese styles would have it.

    Tests Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • 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

  • Yen Ssu-tsi. brought 3,000 chinese immigrants over to Taiwan in 1621.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • Yen Ssu-tsi. brought 3,000 chinese immigrants over to Taiwan in 1621.

    July Meet Up Summary Michael Turton 2006

  • 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.

    languagehat.com: NEMEROV AND HUI TSUNG. 2005

  • 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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