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World Service,3 mins

A Chinese character test

The Fifth Floor

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A university teacher in Sichuan came up with an unusual way to deter students from turning up late. The punishment was to write this word, that uses 56 different pen strokes, 1,000 times. And in case you're wondering the word means "biang" it's a type of noodle.

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