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Andrew West 魏安
babelstone.co.uk
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My thanks to @edwardw2.bsky.social for noting somewhere else this explanation that Manchu bannermen called 八十八 Eighty-eight, 七十五 Seventy-five, and 八十四 Eighty-four were named after the age of their grandmothers at their birth (cited from The China Review Vol. XVII (1888–1889) p. 240)
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