Pronunciation/Chinese readings
How do you pronounce 阿房宫?
阿(ē)房(páng)宫ē páng gōng
Commonly said as: reading it ā fáng gōng
婀旁宫
阿房宫
What it is
Epang Palace was the vast palace complex built by Qin Shi Huang, the subject of Du Mu's famous rhapsody.
Why it gets said wrong
Both 阿 and 房 keep archaic readings here, ē and páng. School textbooks annotate it, yet the literal reading dominates in speech.
Hear it in a sentence
The textbook includes the Epang Palace rhapsody.
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