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  *晴* | 晴* | *晴
clear / fine (weather)
HSK 2
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  *轻* | 轻* | *轻
light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage
HSK 2
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  *请* | 请* | *请
to ask / to invite / please (do sth) / to treat (to a meal etc) / to request
HSK 1
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  *清* | 清* | *清
(of water etc) clear; clean / quiet; still / pure; uncorrupted / clear; distinct / to clear; to settle (accounts)
HSK 6
the Qianlong era / Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王, personal name 弘曆|弘历, reigned 1735–1799
Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty
anti-Qing secret societies
Office of Military and Political Affairs (Qing Dynasty)
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  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
Jin Tianhe (1874–1947), late-Qing poet and novelist, co-author of A Flower in a Sinful Sea 孽海花
Zhang Yi (1608-1695), prolific author and poet spanning interregnum between Ming and Qing
James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English
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  *情* | 情* | *情
(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion / (bound form) situation; condition
HSK 7-9
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  *氢* | 氢* | *氢
hydrogen (chemistry)
minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations
triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Siku Quanshu (collection of books compiled during Qing dynasty)
academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
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  *倾* | 倾* | *倾
to overturn / to collapse / to lean / to tend / to incline / to pour out
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
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  *清* | 清* | *清
Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911) / surname Qing
History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉|张廷玉 in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls
late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century
special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia
Wu Jingzi (1701–1754), Qing dynasty novelist, author of The Scholars 儒林外史
Manchu household register (during the Qing Dynasty)
to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 / aka 光復會|光复会
(Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards / (also an official title in earlier dynasties)
Qing government (1644-1911)
School of Mind / Neo-Confucian Idealistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Wang Yangming 王陽明|王阳明)
Ding Ruchang (1836-1895), commander of the Qing North China Navy
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  *庆* | 庆* | *庆
to celebrate
traditional Han Chinese attire (including various styles of clothing worn by the Han ethnic group before the Qing Dynasty, and in the 21st century, revived as part of a cultural movement) / clothing styles of the Han dynasty
treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Qing Dynasty
the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China
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  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parents-in-law of one's offspring
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  *府* | 府* | *府
seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
Heshen (1746-1799), Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty who openly practiced various forms of corruption on a grand scale
to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty
HSK 7-9
Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
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  *卿* | 卿* | *卿
high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old)
Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆
reign name (1909-1911) of the last Qing emperor Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪
lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
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  *旗* | 旗* | *旗
banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县 county / CL:
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer
near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)
mountain resort / Qing imperial summer residence at Chengde, a world heritage site
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
the Qing court (as government of China)
Kong Shangren (1648-1718), Qing dramatist and poet, author of The Peach Blossom Fan 桃花扇
Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
Great Sword Society, an offshoot of the White Lotus in the late Qing dynasty, involved in anti-Western activity at the time of the Boxer rebellion
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
to close a country; to exclude foreign contact / closed country (Qing China, North Korea etc)
copper coin of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
Fulin Emperor Shunzhi (1638-1662), second Qing emperor, reigned 1644-1662
eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties
coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈禧太后 ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
Shi Lang (1621–1696), Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties
Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1625-1644), a secondary palace in subsequent years, now a museum
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
Zhang Tingyu (1672-1755), Qing politician, senior minister to three successive emperors, oversaw compilation of History of the Ming Dynasty 明史 and the Kangxi Dictionary 康熙字典
Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), a massive rebellion in southern China against the Qing Dynasty, led by Hong Xiuquan 洪秀全, who sought to establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国, resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts in history with millions of casualties
The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康
Xianfeng (1831-1861), reign name of Qing emperor, reigned from 1850-1861 / Xianfeng County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels
Qing historical archive, currently 4484 scrolls
Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan)
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times)
(old) commanding general / commander-in-chief / (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general (provincial military governor) 總督|总督
Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金|后金 and Qing Dynasty
Li Boyuan 李伯元 or Li Baojia (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官場現形記|官场现形记
School of Principle / Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥|程颢, Cheng Yi 程頤|程颐 and Zhu Xi 朱熹)
Hart or Herd (name) / Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office
The Scholars, satirical Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓|吴敬梓
princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty)
the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet
Western skills / in Qing times, refers to Western technology, esp. military and naval know-how
Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, now the site of Nanhaizi Park in the south of Beijing
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
extra allowances paid to government officials in the Qing dynasty
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  *氰* | 氰* | *氰
cyanogen (CN)2 / ethanedinitrile / Taiwan pr. [qing1]
General History of the Qing dynasty, compiled under Xiao Yishan 蕭一山|萧一山
Shengzu, temple name of the second Qing emperor, known as the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722) / cf. 康熙
Weihaiwei, late Qing naval port in Weihai 威海, Shandong
Biographic History of Qing Dynasty by a succession of authors, published 1928 and revised 1987, with biographies of 2,900 notable Qing commoner citizens, 80 scrolls
the late Qing and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911
Manchurian Qing government
the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing

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