| | chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance | HSK 2 |
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| | to open up / to spread / sheet of paper / classifier for flat objects, sheet / classifier for votes | HSK 3 |
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| | to rise (of prices, rivers) | HSK 5 |
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| | to swell / to distend | HSK 6 |
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| | chapter / section / clause / movement (of symphony) / seal / badge / regulation / order | HSK 6 |
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| | to swell; to distend; to expand / swollen; bloated | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書｜草书 | |
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| | Zhang Yi (c. 3rd century), literary figure from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, other name 稚讓｜稚让, named as compiler of earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia 廣雅｜广雅 and several lost works | |
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| | surname Zhang | |
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| | to block / to hinder / to obstruct | |
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| | Zhang Yang (1967-), PRC film director and screenwriter | |
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| | clear / conspicuous / manifest | |
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| | measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male | |
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| | palm of the hand / sole of the foot / paw / horseshoe / to slap / to hold in one's hand / to wield | |
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| | cliff / range of peaks | |
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| | place name | |
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| | weaponry / to hold (a weapon) / to wield / to rely on / to depend on / war / battle | |
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| | jade tablet used in ceremonies, shaped like the left or right half of a "gui" 圭, also given to male infants to play with | |
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| | (bound form) curtain; tent; canopy / variant of 賬｜账 | |
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| | a staff / a rod / cane / walking stick / to flog with a stick (old) | |
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| | malaria / miasma | |
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| | camphor / Cinnamonum camphara | |
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| | Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀｜张艺谋) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square) / monastic room 10 feet square / Buddhist or Daoist abbot / abbot's chamber | |
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| | lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom) / fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline / to take a dive | |
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| | Zhang county in Dingxi 定西, Gansu | |
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| | the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 張衡｜张衡 in 132 / abbr. for 候風地動儀｜候风地动仪 | |
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| | lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head / to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom) / to confuse one thing with another | |
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| | surname Zhang | |
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| | river deer / roebuck | |
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| | husband's father | |
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| | food / white cooked rice | |
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| | cataract in the eye | |
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| | bright / to rise (of sun) | |
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| | Zhang Ning (1975-), PRC female badminton player and Olympic gold medalist | |
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| | patch of leather | |
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| | decameter (old) | |
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| | Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三｜张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry / (dialect) wolf | |
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| | Zhang Jue (-184), leader of the Yellow turban rebels during the late Han | |
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| | lit. Zhang Three and Li Four (idiom) / (fig.) any Tom, Dick or Harry | |
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| | Zhang Dejiang (1946-), PRC politician | |
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| | Zhang Yi (-309 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家｜纵横家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | Zhang Heng (78-139) great Han dynasty astronomer and mathematician | |
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| | Zhang Ji (767-830), Tang Dynasty poet | |
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| | Fushe, late Ming political and cultural movement led by Zhang Pu 張溥｜张溥 and others, advocating the revival of ancient studies | |
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| | Zhang Yi (1608-1695), prolific author and poet spanning interregnum between Ming and Qing | |
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| | Zhang Dai (1597-c. 1684), late Ming scholar | |
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| | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
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| | Zhang Dan (1985-), Chinese figure skater | |
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| | Zhang Yimou (1950-), PRC film director | |
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| | Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), Grand Secretary during the Ming dynasty, credited with bringing the dynasty to its apogee | |
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| | Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC | |
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| | Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty | |
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| | Zhang Ziyi (1979-), PRC actress | |
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| | Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀｜张艺谋 | |
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| | Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈｜张自烈 in 17th century | |
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| | Zhang Xun (1854-1923), Qing loyalist general who attempted to restore the abdicated emperor Puyi 溥儀｜溥仪 to the throne in the Manchu Restoration of 1917 張勳復辟｜张勋复辟 | |
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| | Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution | |
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| | Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928 | |
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| | Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine | |
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| | lit. Zhang Fei fights Yue Fei / fig. an impossible combination / an impossible turn of events (idiom) | |
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| | Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing | |
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| | Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), one of the greatest Chinese artists of the 20th century | |
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| | Zhang Zhizhong (1890-1969), National Revolutionary Army general | |
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| | Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army | |
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| | Zhang Zizhong (1891-1940), Chinese National Revolutionary Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War | |
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| | Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜 | |
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| | Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979 | |
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| | Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145), Song dynasty painter | |
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| | Oath of the Peach Garden, sworn by Liu Bei 劉備｜刘备, Zhang Fei 張飛｜张飞 and Guan Yu 關羽｜关羽 at the start of the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 | |
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| | Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938 | |
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| | Zhang Tailei (1898-1927), founding member of Chinese communist party | |
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| | School of Diplomacy of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocates were Su Qin 蘇秦｜苏秦 and Zhang Yi 張儀｜张仪 | |
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| | Zhang Tianyi (1906-1985), children's writer, author of prize-winning fairy tale Secret of the Magic Gourd 寶葫蘆的秘密｜宝葫芦的秘密 | |
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| | Zhang Yizhi (-705), Tang dynasty politician and favorite of Empress Wu Zetian 武則天｜武则天 | |
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| | Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution | |
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| | nine-tailed turtle of mythology / The Nine-tailed Turtle, novel by late Qing novelist Zhang Chunfan 張春帆｜张春帆 | |
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| | Zhang Gaoli (1946-), PRC politician | |
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| | zhang (Chinese unit of length equal to 3⅓ meters) | |
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| | Zhang Zilie (1597-1673), Ming dynasty scholar, author of Zhengzitong 正字通 | |
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| | Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005), one of the Gang of Four | |
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| | book by Han dynasty astronomer Zhang Heng | |
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| | Zhang Shizhao (1881-1973), revolutionary journalist in Shanghai, then established writer | |
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| | Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報｜京报, executed in 1926 by warlord Zhang Zuolin 張作霖｜张作霖 | |
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| | Zhang Sengyou (active c. 490-540), one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家 | |
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| | Zhang Yining (1981-), PRC female table tennis player and Olympic gold medalist | |
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| | fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home | |
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| | White Tiger Hall, a Han dynasty palace hall in which the famous Virtuous Discussions Held in White Tiger Hall 白虎通德論｜白虎通德论 were held under the aegis of Han Emperor Zhang 漢章帝｜汉章帝 | |
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| | Five Men's Tombstone Inscription, an essay by Zhang Pu 張溥｜张溥 commemorating five martyrs who died resisting the tyranny of Wei Zhongxian 魏忠賢｜魏忠贤 during the late Ming dynasty | |
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| | Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽｜关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛｜张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲｜赵云, Ma Chao 馬超｜马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠｜黄忠 | |
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| | the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 張衡｜张衡 in 132 | |
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| | Secret of the Magic Gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tianyi 張天翼｜张天翼 | |
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