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野史

yě shǐ

2-character word

What 野史 means

1. unofficial history
2. history as popular legends

The characters in 野史

• 野yěfield; plain; open space
• 史shǐhistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China

Sounds the same

Read yě shǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 野豕(literary) wild boar

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