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surname Gong

palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale

pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system

"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

the Louvre, museum in Paris

harem / chambers of imperial concubines

the Kremlin

Nangong, county-level city in Xingtai 邢台[Xing2 tai2], Hebei

name of a famous opera / (slang) to go to jail for a second offense

the Palace of Versailles, France

birth by caesarean section

Winter Palace (St Petersburg) / Hermitage Museum

(in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor / (fig.) the doghouse / a state of disfavor

(slang) to have served several sentences / recidivist / old lag

Palais des Nations

Jiugong Mountains (the location of Jiugong Mountain National Park), in Tongshan County, Xianning 咸寧|咸宁[Xian2 ning2], Hubei

Jiugongshan town in Tongshan county, Xianning prefecture-level city 咸寧|咸宁[Xian2 ning2], Hubei

sudoku (puzzle game)

underground palace of ghouls, e.g. Asgard of Scandinavian mythology

empress and imperial concubines or their residence

cesarean section

the twelve equatorial constellations or signs of the zodiac in Western astronomy and astrology, namely: Aries 白羊[Bai2 yang2], Taurus 金牛[Jin4 niu2], Gemini 雙子|双子[Shuang1 zi3], Cancer 巨蟹[Ju4 xie4], Leo 獅子|狮子[Shi1 zi3], Virgo 室女[Shi4 nü3], Libra 天秤[Tian1 cheng4], Scorpio 天蠍|天蝎[Tian1 xie1], Sagittarius 人馬|人马[Ren2 ma3], Capricorn 摩羯[Mo2 jie2], Aquarius 寶瓶|宝瓶[Bao3 ping2], Pisces 雙魚|双鱼[Shuang1 yu2]

Nangong, county-level city in Xingtai 邢台[Xing2 tai2], Hebei

the Palace of the Bogdo Khan in Ulan Bator, Mongolia