东交民巷
Traditional form:
東交民巷
Pinyin (reading):
Dōng Jiāomín Xiàng
Definitions:
- East Jiaomin Lane, a street in central Beijing and its surrounding district, formerly known as the Peking Legation Quarter, where foreign diplomatic missions were located during the period 1861–1959
Characters:
- 东 - east, eastern, eastward
- 交 - to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix
- 民 - citizens, subjects; a nation's people
- 巷 - alley, lane
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