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Japanese
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| 鶴は千年龜は萬年 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology
Literally, “a crane lives for a thousand years, a tortoise ten thousand years”.
The first part of the proverb, tsuru wa sennen, is an allusion to a passage in the Huainanzi,[1][2] a calque of Literary Chinese 鶴壽千歲.
Proverb
鶴は千年亀は万年 • (tsuru wa sennen kame wa mannen)
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