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comment by Jay · 2020-05-12T21:09:51.681Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Could we get a Romanization of #5? Some of us are modestly familiar with Chinese history while simultaneously baffled by a written language that appears to consist mainly of several thousand subtly different drawings of sheds.

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comment by Raemon · 2020-05-12T21:18:03.078Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Turns out you can actually just google chinese characters. (I don't mean this to be dismissive, just noting a thing you can do in the future that I wasn't even sure would work 30 seconds ago)

When I google "秦始皇" I get:

Qin Shi Huang, previously Zheng, King of Qin, personal name Yíng Zhèng or Zhào Zhèng, was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China. He became China's first emperor when he was 38 after the Qin had conquered all of the other Warring States and unified all of China in 221 BC.