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九泉

jiǔ quán

2-character word

What 九泉 means

1. the nine springs
2. the underworld of Chinese mythology
3. Hades

The characters in 九泉

• 九jiǔnine; 9
• 泉quánspring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)

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