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Re:CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin&... by kenneth on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:56AM (#20351666)
Mandarin is a spoken language. The characters are "Simplified Chinese" in this case. The characters will sound different read in different languages.

e.g. the two Traditional Chinese characters 東京 translate roughly to "Eastern Capital" and are read dōngjīng, while they are also valid Japanese Kanji where they have the same meaning and are read as Tokyo. (Yes, the name of the capital of Japan.) Interestingly, Běijīng and Nánjīng similarly mean "northern" and "southern" capital respectively.

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Re:CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin&... by echaozh on Thursday July 04, 2019 @06:06AM (#20353151)
There was once an Eastern Capital in China which is also named as Kaifeng, the capital of the Northen Song Dynasty. It is to east of Chang'an, which is now Xi'an, and the capital of most of earlier dynasties.
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