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a mountain in Kansu, where there is a cave into which the sun is said to sink at night

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DEFINITIONS

  • a mountain in Kansu, where there is a cave into which the sun is said to sink at night
  • name of a mountain in Gansu

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嵫 yān zī (old) name of a mountain in Gansu, where the setting sun was supposed to enter the earth
日薄嵫 rì bó yān zī lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom); fig. the day is drawing to an end; the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)
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