1) Pakistani name
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WANI (1400 AM, `News Talk 1400`) is a news/talk radio station in Auburn, Alabama. The station is owned by Auburn Network, Inc. and serves the Montgomery, Alabama, radio market. The station was assigned the WANI call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on December 1, 1997. ==Programming== As of July 2007, the station carries `The Ru......
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[dragon] Wani first occurs in two ancient Japanese `mytho-histories`, the ca. 680 CE Kojiki and ca. 720 CE Nihongi. They write wani with the Man`yōgana phonetic transcription 和邇 and the kanji 鰐. The Kojiki uses wani 和邇 several times as a proper name (e.g., the Confucianist scholar Wani, Chamberlain 1919:2,313) and as a sea-monste...
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[scholar] Wani (Japanese: 王仁, 和邇吉師) is a semi-legendary scholar who is said to have been sent to Japan by Baekje of southwestern Korea during the reign of Emperor Ōjin. He used to be associated with the introduction of the Chinese writing system to Japan. ==Original sources and analysis== Wani is mentioned only in Japanese hist...
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(from the article `calligraphy`) ...in China. There is no definite record of when the Japanese began to use Chinese words—called kanji in Japanese. It is known that a Korean scribe ...
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