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轶闻

yì wén

2-character word Traditional 軼聞

What 轶闻 means

1. anecdote
2. apocryphal story

The characters in 轶闻

• 轶yì(bound form) (of a book, author etc) lost (to the ages)…
• 闻wénto hear; news; well-known

Sounds the same

Read yì wén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 译文translated text
• 异文variant character; loan word; variant written form (for the same word)
• 逸闻variant of 轶闻

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