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横断山脉

Héng duàn shān mài

4-character word Traditional 橫斷山脈

What 横断山脉 means

1. Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet

The characters in 横断山脉

• 横hénghorizontal; across; crosswise
• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 脉màiarteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)

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