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List of people of the Three Kingdoms (O)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ17032880 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a partial list of people significant to the Three Kingdoms period (220–280) of Chinese history. Their romanised names start with the letter O.

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References

Fan, Ye. Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu).

Chen, Shou. Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi).

Fang, Xuanling. Book of Jin (Jin Shu).

Pei, Songzhi. Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi zhu).

Sima, Guang.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 64-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, people and Three.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17032880. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of people of the Three Kingdoms (O)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.