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隍 · Yu Shi Nan

Huáng (2nd tone). The Shuowen Jiezi defines it as 「城池也。有水曰池,無水曰隍。从阜皇聲」 and clinches it with a quotation from the Changes: 《易》曰:「城復于隍」 — ‘the city wall falls back into the moat’. The distinction is exact and worth keeping: the ditch around a $9.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart