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Gender Masculine
Usage History
Scripts 冒頓(Chinese)

Meaning & History

Possibly a Middle Chinese form of the old Turkic honorific bagatur meaning "hero, warrior". Modu Chanyu was a 3rd-century BC ruler of the Xiongnu, a people from Mongolia.