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APPENDIX III.

[The following eighteen lines are given in the edition of 王相 Wang Hsiang, and were probably written by himself, in order to bring the history section down to the beginning of the present dynasty. They have not been translated by either Père Zottoli or Eitel.]

254A.	遼	與	金	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Under the Liao and the Chin dynasties,
	Liao2	yü3	chin1
	Liao	with	chin

Liao is composed of the walking radical and a common phonetic. It means distant, and is also the dynastic name adopted by the 契丹 Kitan Tartars who shared in the empire of China from A.D. 907 to about half-way through the 12th century.

Yü see line 87.

Chin see line 66. Here the dynastic name adopted by the 女眞 Nü-chên Tartars who shared in the empire of China from A.D. 1115 to 1234.

254B.	帝	號	紛	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	there was confusion of Imperial titles;
	Ti4	hao4	fên1
	Ruler	name	confusion

Ti see line 180.

Hao see line 137.

Fên is composed of 糸 ssŭ silk as radical, and 分 (line 232) as phonetic. [This line is taken by the commentator to mean that confusion arose from the various personal names and tribal