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名詞

tricent (plural tricents)

1. A li, a traditional Chinese unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
   • 1994, Zhuangzi, trans. Victor Mair, Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu, page 3:

     The P’eng is so huge that no one knows how many thousands of tricents its back stretches. Rousing itself to flight, its wings are like clouds suspended in the sky.