"Nan-hai" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Mandarin 南海 (Nánhǎi) Wade–Giles pronunciation: Nan²-hai³.",
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          "ref": "1956, Li Chien-lung, translated by Ssu-yu Teng and Jeremy Hills, The Political History of China, 1840-1928, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 145",
          "text": "As for K’ang Yu-wei, his first given name was Tsu-i. He was born in 1858, in the district of Nan-hai, Kwangtung, into an old and aristocratic family which for generations had been noted for its Neo-Confucian scholarship.",
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          "ref": "1975, Marjorie Topley, “Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung”, in Margery Wolf, Roxane Witke, editors, Women in Chinese Society, Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70",
          "text": "In 1939 approximately 70 percent of Shun-te's land area was devoted to this economy, and about 90 percent of the population was engaged in one or another aspect of sericulture. Nan-hai had close to one-half the mulberry acreage of Shun-te; a little less than half its population was engaged in sericulture.",
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          "ref": "1990, A. F. Price, Wong Mou-lam, transl., The Diamond Sūtra and the Sūtra of Hui-neng, Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119",
          "text": "Bhikshu Chih-tao, a native of Nan-hai of Kwangtung, came to the patriarch for instruction, saying, \"Since I joined the order I have read the Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra for more than ten years, but I have not yet grasped its main idea. Will you please teach me?\"",
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  "word": "Nan-hai"
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          "text": "Bhikshu Chih-tao, a native of Nan-hai of Kwangtung, came to the patriarch for instruction, saying, \"Since I joined the order I have read the Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra for more than ten years, but I have not yet grasped its main idea. Will you please teach me?\"",
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