Gagai (噶蓋) | 24 Histories

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Gagai was an official.

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IdentityHistorical · Male

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AD 1616 to AD 1636 開國創字
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 96

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 1 passage

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夫國書字體，創自文臣額爾德尼及噶蓋等，而仰承聖意，匯集大成，詳定頒行者，實唯儒臣達海。 The script itself had been devised by Erdeni, Gagai, and others, but it was the Confucian official Dahai who, following the imperial will, brought the system together, refined it, and promulgated it.