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焚书坑儒
fén shū kēng rú
What 焚书坑儒 means
- to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor {秦始皇|Qín Shǐ huáng})
The characters in 焚书坑儒
- 焚fénto burn
- 书shūbook; letter; document
- 坑kēngpit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive
- 儒rúscholar; Confucian
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