yen-ling

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English

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"Long ago, when King Kung of Ch’u fought with Duke Li of Chin at Yen-ling, the Ch’u army was defeated and King Kung was wounded in the eye."
"Before joining battle, the officers and warriors gathered to make divinations "before the spirits of the former rulers," as at the battle of Yen-ling between Chin and Ch'u in 575 b.c."

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鄢陵 (Yen¹-ling²).

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