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Wanyan Xiyin
Wanyan Xiyin was a Manchurian scribe ordered by the Jurchen chieftain, Wanyan Aguda (later the Emperor Taizu), to create the Jurchen script for administrative purposes in 1119 or 1120. He based it on Chinese characters and the Liao script.
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