created sense approved 杨衒之/楊衒之 · yángxuànzhī · Yang Xuanzhi — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
杨衒之 / 楊衒之
yángxuànzhī
Yang Xuanzhi
Yang Xuanzhi, a 6th-century writer and government official from Luoyang during the Northern Wei Dynasty; he is most famous for writing the book [[洛阳伽蓝记|洛陽伽藍記|luo4 yang2 qie2 lan2 ji4]] (A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luoyang), which describes the architecture and legends of the city's temples after they were destroyed by war.
杨 (literal) → 杨/楊 · yáng · Yang 衒 (literal) → 衒 · xuàn · to show off 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · surname
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