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Noun
金匱
- (literary, chiefly poetic) archives; library; especially confidential archives in a monarch's inner palace
卒三歲，而遷爲太史令，紬史記石室金匱之書。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
卒三岁，而迁为太史令，绸史记石室金匮之书。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
- Zú sānsuì, ér Qiān wèi Tàishǐlìng, chōu shǐjì shíshì jīnguì zhī shū.
- Three years after my father's death, I, Qian, was appointed to the office of the Taishi Ling, and I busied myself with compiling historical records from the books in the imperial archives.
- (figurative, poetic) inner palace