See Quanzhou in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "a county of Guangxi, China",
"word": "全州"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Jeonju",
"sense": "a county of Guangxi, China",
"word": "전주"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a county of Guangxi, China",
"word": "Toàn Châu"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Quanzhou"
],
"word": "Quanzhou"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": Choân-chiu vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"Quanzhou"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Quanzhou",
"trace": ""
}
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