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阎锡山

Yán Xī shān

3-character word Traditional 閻錫山

What 阎锡山 means

1. Yan Xishan (1883-1960), warlord in Shanxi

The characters in 阎锡山

• 阎yán(literary) the gate of a lane
• 锡xītin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

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