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Liúbèi
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Meanings

  1. 1 Liu Bei (161-223), late-Han warlord and founder of Shu Han, one of the Three Kingdoms

Examples

Liúbèi sān gù máolú qǐng Zhūgě Liàng chūshān.
Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage three times to recruit Zhuge Liang.
Tā hé Guān Yǔ, Zhāng Fēi zài Táoyuán jiéyì.
He swore brotherhood with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in the Peach Garden.

Tips

history
Liu claimed descent from the Han imperial family and presented himself as the dynasty's rightful restorer. The (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) portrays him as benevolent in contrast to Cao Cao's cunning — the source of the idiom (asking humbly, three times, for talent).

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