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| | soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled | HSK 3 |
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| | to recline / to lie down | HSK 4 |
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| | head / director (of an organizational unit) / (police) commissioner / inspector-general / rank of local governor in Tang dynasty administration | HSK 6 |
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| | classifier for times, round trips or rows / a time / a trip | HSK 6 |
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| | legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL: 間｜间 / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to scald / to burn (by scalding) / to blanch (cooking) / to heat (sth) up in hot water / to perm / to iron / scalding hot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to drip / to trickle / to shed (tears) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Tang dynasty (618-907) / surname Tang | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | surname Tang | |
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| | Tang poetry; a Tang poem | |
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| | seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) | |
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| | the Tang dynasty (618-907) | |
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| | dyke / embankment / pool or pond / hot-water bathing pool | |
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| | Nichang, abbr. for the Tang Dynasty song "Raiment of Rainbows and Feathers" 霓裳羽衣曲 or 霓裳羽衣舞 | |
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| | cherry-apple | |
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| | noise of drums | |
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| | to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s) | |
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| | Tang dynasty (618-907) | |
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| | old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩｜古体诗 | |
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| | academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty) | |
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| | Tang dynasty (618-907) | |
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| | An-Shi Rebellion (755-763) of 安祿山｜安禄山 and 史思明, a catastrophic setback for Tang dynasty | |
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| | old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject | |
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| | to exaggerate / empty / in vain / old variant of 螗 | |
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| | Tang emperor Xuanzong's 唐玄宗 reign name used during the Kaiyuan era (713-741), a peak of Tang prosperity | |
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| | ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks) | |
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| | Han Yu (768-824), Tang dynasty essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動｜古文运动 and neoclassical 復古｜复古 movements | |
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| | ancient weapon resembling a pitchfork | |
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| | guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times) | |
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| | Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市｜咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武則天｜武则天 | |
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| | (jade) | |
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| | Chang'an (ancient name of Xi'an 西安) capital of China during Tang Dynasty 唐朝 / now 長安區｜长安区, a district of Xi'an | |
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| | Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645 | |
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| | to wade / to trample / to turn the soil | |
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| | to keep out / to hold off / to ward off / to evade / to spread / to coat / to smear / to daub | |
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| | Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature | |
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| | surname Zhu / abbr. for 天竺, India (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) / (archaic) Buddhism | |
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| | prefectural magistrate (during Tang to Qing times) | |
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| | Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705 | |
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| | the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties | |
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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥｜崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓｜岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣｜滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | fine rain / drizzle / poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李商隱｜李商隐 | |
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| | Tang Xianzu (1550-1616), Ming poet and dramatist, author of The Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭 | |
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| | Xuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India 629-645 | |
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| | county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times) | |
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| | (bound form) hollow space | |
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| | Tang of the Five Southern Dynasties 937-975 | |
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| | the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) | |
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| | same as 舊唐書｜旧唐书, History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫｜刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉｜后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls | |
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| | Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam) / Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century) / Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period) / old name for Vietnam / Annan District in Tainan 臺南｜台南, Taiwan / Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN secretary-general 1997-2006 | |
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| | name of a famous Tang dynasty wine / same as 白酒 | |
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| | Tang county in Baoding 保定, Hebei | |
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| | if; supposing; in case | |
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| | Nanzhao, 8th and 9th century kingdom in Yunnan, at times allied with Tang against Tibetan Tubo pressure | |
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| | capital of 府 prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) / prefectural seat | |
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| | Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song | |
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| | variant of 燙｜烫 / variant of 趟 | |
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| | notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties | |
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| | Shide, Tang Buddhist poet who lived at the Guoqing Temple on Mt Tiantai 天台山 | |
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| | History of the Jin Dynasty, fifth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Fang Xuanling 房玄齡｜房玄龄 in 648 during Tang Dynasty 唐朝, 130 scrolls | |
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| | Tang suit (traditional Chinese jacket) | |
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| | to wash / to rinse / any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty) / Taiwan pr. [huan3] / also pr. [wan3] | |
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| | pillar / door post / door or window frame / classifier for doors or windows | |
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| | refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院 | |
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| | the Five Legendary Emperors, usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黃帝｜黄帝, Zhuanxu 顓頊｜颛顼, Di Ku 帝嚳｜帝喾, Tang Yao 唐堯｜唐尧 and Yu Shun 虞舜 | |
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| | lit. fence town / buffer region (between enemies) / Tang dynasty system of provincial administration under a provincial governor 節度使｜节度使 | |
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| | name invented for herself by Tang empress Wu Zetian 武則天｜武则天 | |
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| | flat land / (used in place names) | |
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| | half congealed / pond | |
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| | (onom.) clang / bong / bang | |
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| | Later Tang of the Five Dynasties (923-936) | |
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| | praying mantis | |
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| | Confucian study of ethics / study of Daoism / school for Daoism in Tang and Song times / Daoist magic / another name for 理學｜理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism | |
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| | to wade / to trample | |
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| | carbonyl (radical) | |
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| | lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom) / fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用｜卢藏用, who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court) | |
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| | a genre of poetry, developed in the Tang Dynasty, characterized by its strict form | |
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| | magistrate (during Tang and Song dynasties) / mythological underworld judge | |
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| | Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism | |
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| | if / unexpectedly | |
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| | History of the Sui Dynasty, thirteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Wei Zheng 魏徵｜魏征 in 636 during Tang Dynasty, 85 scrolls | |
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| | Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism | |
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| | used in place-names, e.g. 溵水 was once the name of the Shahe River 沙河, Henan, and 溵州 was a Tang Dynasty prefecture | |
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| | variety of small cicada with a green back and a clear song (in ancient books) | |
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| | to fall flat / to fall on the face | |
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| | to warm / to toast | |
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| | Sui-Tang (premodern ethnic group) | |
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| | Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet | |
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| | red / crimson | |
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