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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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  *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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  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
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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
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  *情* | 情* | *情
(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion / (bound form) situation; condition
HSK 7-9
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
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  *氢* | 氢* | *氢
hydrogen (chemistry)
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  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parents-in-law of one's offspring
lesson plan / teaching plan / a "missionary case" (a dispute over Christian missionaries during the late Qing)
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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)
south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
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)
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  *青* | 青* | *青
abbr. for 青海, Qinghai Province
given name of Qing Emperor Xianfeng 咸豐|咸丰
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  *清* | 清* | *清
Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644-1911) / surname Qing
academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
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  *庆* | 庆* | *庆
to celebrate
Nalan Xingde (1655-1685), Manchu ethnic Qing dynasty poet
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
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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:
Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王, personal name 弘曆|弘历, reigned 1735-1799
the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties
princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty)
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
Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China
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  *箐* | 箐* | *箐
to draw a bamboo bow or crossbow
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  *擎* | 擎* | *擎
to raise; to hold up; to lift up
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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)
Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735)
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  *倾* | 倾* | *倾
to overturn / to collapse / to lean / to tend / to incline / to pour out
the local commander / provincial governor (in Qing and Ming times)
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
military aircraft / secret plan / Privy Council during the Qing dynasty
Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan)
reign name of Qing emperor (1821-1850)
county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
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  *磬* | 磬* | *磬
chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone
Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820), seventh Qing emperor, personal name 顒琰|颙琰, reigned 1796-1820
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  *勍* | 勍* | *勍
violent / strong
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Qing county in Cangzhou 滄州|沧州, Hebei
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
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (abbr. for 格物致知) / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
(Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards / (also an official title in earlier dynasties)
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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  *顷* | 顷* | *顷
unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩 or 6.67 hectares / a short while / a little while ago / circa. (for approximate dates)
navy (in Qing times)
reign name of second Qing emperor (1644-1662)
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
to pay respects / to wish good health / in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千)
the Qing army
capital of prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) / prefectural seat
old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949) / (in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal
Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金|后金 and Qing Dynasty
Shengzu, temple name of the second Qing emperor, known as the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722) / cf. 康熙
reign name (1909-1911) of the last Qing emperor Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪
Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金|后金 from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty
the Qing Dynasty name for the coastal provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong
Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times)
the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝 / late Qing
Hart or Herd (name) / Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office
the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet
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
in Qing dynasty, Manchurian word for wife
the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
Qing'an county in Suihua 綏化|绥化, Heilongjiang
the Qing court (as government of China)
Dinghai district of Zhoushan city 舟山市, Zhejiang / Qing dynasty name of 舟山市
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
foreign affairs (in Qing times) / foreign learning
Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor / posthumous name 清太宗
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  *氰* | 氰* | *氰
cyanogen (CN)2 / ethanedinitrile / Taiwan pr. [qing1]
prefectural magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
border region / regional general acting as governor (in Ming and Qing times)
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  *蜻* | 蜻* | *蜻
see 蜻蜓
(old) commanding general / commander-in-chief / (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general (provincial military governor) 總督|总督
Later Jin dynasty (from 1616-) / Manchu Khanate or kingdom that took over as Qing dynasty in 1644
xiaolian, two examination subjects in Han, later a single subject in Ming and Qing / successful second degree candidate
buttoned mandarin jacket of the Qing dynasty 清代 (1644-1911)
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  *罄* | 罄* | *罄
to use up / to exhaust / empty
Rehe, Qing dynasty province abolished in 1955 and divided among Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia / refers to the Qing imperial resort at Chengde / see also 避暑山莊|避暑山庄 (history)
provincial imperial examination graduate who ranked 1st in metropolitan examination (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
to close a country; to exclude foreign contact / closed country (Qing China, North Korea etc)
Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations
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  *鲭* | 鲭* | *鲭
mackerel
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  *宬* | 宬* | *宬
(literary) archive room; library (esp. in the imperial palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties)
the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing
verse or song form from Yuan, Ming and Qing
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  *庼* | 庼* | *庼
room / small hall
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  *黥* | 黥* | *黥
surname Qing
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  *黥* | 黥* | *黥
to tattoo criminals on the face or forehead
anti-Qing secret societies

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