| | nobleman / person of noble character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | monarch / lord / gentleman / ruler | |
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| | opium eater / drug addict / chain smoker | |
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| | (honorific) husband | |
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| | monarch | |
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| | Grand Hyatt (hotel brand) | |
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| | monarch / sovereign | |
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| | Constantinople, capital of Byzantium | |
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| | Junshan district of Yueyang city 岳陽|岳阳, Hunan | |
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| | tyrant / despot | |
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| | scarlet kafir lily / Clivia miniata (botany) | |
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| | a ruler and his ministers (old) | |
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| | lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom) / fig. to give sb a taste of his own medicine | |
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| | incapable ruler | |
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| | sage | |
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| | Gentlemen! (start of a speech) / Ladies and Gentlemen! | |
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| | sovereign king | |
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| | upright gentleman / man of honor | |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism | |
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| | heir apparent to a throne | |
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| | monarchical power | |
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| | regicide / to commit regicide | |
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| | my husband and master (archaic) / playboy of rich family / pimp | |
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| | Yijun County in Tongchuan 銅川|铜川, Shaanxi | |
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| | a nobleman's word is his bond (proverb) | |
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| | lit. the gentleman on the roof beam / fig. a thief | |
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| | friendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子) | |
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| | recluse / hermit / used for homophone 癮君子|瘾君子, opium addict | |
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| | Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神 | |
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| | people of good will (idiom); charitable person | |
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| | Teresa Teng (1953-1995), Taiwanese pop idol | |
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| | the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea (mythology) | |
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| | Lord of the East, the sun God of Chinese mythology | |
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| | my late father / my ancestors / the late emperor | |
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| | (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell | |
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| | being close to the sovereign can be as perilous as lying with a tiger (idiom) | |
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| | Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | the lord of Lu (who declined to employ Confucius) | |
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| | Wang Zhaojun (52-19 BC), famous beauty at the court of Han emperor Yuan 漢元帝|汉元帝, one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女 | |
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| | Yang Rui (1855-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 / Yang Rui (1963-), host of "Dialogue" on CCTV News | |
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| | the monarch and his ministers / tribal chief | |
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| | The Book of Lord Shang, Legalist text of the 4th century BC | |
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| | spirit of the planet Mars | |
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| | the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施, Wang Zhaojun 王昭君, Diaochan 貂蟬|貂蝉 and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环 | |
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| | listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb) | |
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| | to dupe one's sovereign | |
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| | monarchy / autocracy | |
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| | Yijun County in Tongchuan 銅川|铜川, Shaanxi | |
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| | virtuous gentleman (idiom) | |
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| | the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐 | |
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| | Tangun, legendary founder of Korea in 2333 BC | |
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| | a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子) | |
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| | lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. a nobleman who has seen a living animal cannot bear to see it die, hence he keeps away from the kitchen | |
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| | ideal husband; Mr. Right | |
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| | refined gentleman | |
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| | Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | stage name of Cyndi Wang / see 王君如 | |
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| | to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom) | |
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| | Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | good people are at peace with themselves, (but) there is no rest for the wicked | |
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| | Yang Shenxiu (1849-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | hypocrite | |
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| | (idiom) to be faithful to the ruler and love one's country | |
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| | hereditary monarchy | |
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| | monarchy | |
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| | monarchy | |
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| | royal title | |
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| | (honorific) your father | |
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| | Kang Guangren (1867-1898), younger brother of Kang Youwei 康有為|康有为 and one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom) | |
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| | Cyndi Wang (1982-), Taiwanese singer and actress | |
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| | monarchy / sovereign state | |
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| | constitutional monarchy | |
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| | a gentleman uses his mouth and not his fist | |
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| | lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom) / fig. revenge is a dish best served cold | |
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| | Junshan district of Yueyang city 岳陽|岳阳, Hunan | |
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| | absolute monarchy / autocracy | |
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| | one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is not a man (idiom) | |
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| | Tangun, legendary founder of Korea in 2333 BC | |
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| | lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people along the road cheered a horseman on as he galloped past, until the horse died of exhaustion) / fig. beware of becoming complacent when everyone is cheering you on | |
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| | Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | enlightened sovereign | |
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| | Ma Fujun, famous general of Zhao 趙國|赵国 | |
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| | homosexual (positive term) | |
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