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林则徐

Lín Zé xú

3-character word Traditional 林則徐

What 林则徐 means

1. Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842

The characters in 林则徐

• 林lín(bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)…
• 则zé(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then…
• 徐xúslowly; gently

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