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黄泉

Huáng quán

2-character word Traditional 黃泉

What 黄泉 means

1. the Yellow Springs
2. the underworld of Chinese mythology
3. the equivalent of Hades or Hell

The characters in 黄泉

• 黄huángyellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 泉quánspring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)

Words containing 黄泉

• 命归黄泉mìng guī Huáng quánlit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黄泉; fig. to die; to meet one's end
• 抱恨黄泉bào hèn huáng quán(idiom) to harbor regrets into the afterlife
• 命赴黄泉mìng fù Huáng quánto visit the Yellow Springs; to die

Sounds the same

Read Huáng quán, tone for tone, but written differently.

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