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命歸黃泉 命归黄泉 [ming4 gui1 Huang2 quan2] /lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[Huang2 quan2] (idiom)/fig. to die/to meet one's end/Reference definitions and teaching material have separate provenance.
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