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五口通商
wǔ kǒu tōng shāng
What 五口通商 means
- the five treaty ports forced on Qing China by the 1842 treaty of Nanjing 南京条约 that concluded the First Opium War, namely: Guangzhou 广州, Fuzhou 福州, Ningbo 宁波, Xiamen or Amoy 厦门 and Shanghai 上海
The characters in 五口通商
- 五wǔfive; 5
- 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
- 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
- 商shāngcommerce; merchant; dealer
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