chau gong

[Douglas G. Wilson]

At the "Chinagong" web-site --

http://www.chinagong.com/chinese/index.htm

-- in the left-hand column, the first item is a "chao1 luo2", i.e.,
"chao gong" as listed on the parallel English-language page.

The character for "chao" is this one:

http://www.xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php?cdqchi=%E6%8A%84

I don't know why that's the name of the gong: maybe it's an arbitrary
phonetic transcription of something else, maybe it's a place name, maybe
.... Other sites also show this Chinese 'spelling'.

-- Doug Wilson

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