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宋慈

Sòng Cí

2-character word

What 宋慈 means

1. Song Ci (1186–1249), author of "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" {洗冤集录|Xǐ yuān Jí lù} (1247), said to be the world's first forensic science text

The characters in 宋慈

• 宋Sòngsurname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋
• 慈cícompassionate; gentle; merciful

Sounds the same

Read Sòng Cí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 颂词commendation speech; eulogy; ode
• 颂辞variant of 颂词