si1 maa5 cin1司马迁
Jyutpingsi1 maa5 cin1
Yalesī máh chīn

Definition

Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography

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