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| | empire / imperial | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | imperialism | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God | |
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| | Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) / surname Ming / Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God | |
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| | surname Zhi / Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God | |
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| | surname Cheng / Cheng (c. 2000 BC), third of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God | |
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| | Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 and creator of agriculture | |
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| | Yongjia county in Wenzhou 溫州|温州, Zhejiang / reign name 307-313 of Jin Emperor Huai 晉懷帝|晋怀帝 | |
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| | imperial capital | |
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| | regent / monarch | |
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| | Li (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God, also known as Ai 哀 | |
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| | emperor | |
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| | Han Dynasty term for the Roman Empire 羅馬帝國|罗马帝国 | |
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| | the Yellow Emperor, mythological emperor of China, reigned c. 2697-2597 BC | |
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| | (male) superstar of the silver screen; best actor award winner | |
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| | the Jade Emperor | |
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| | God of heaven / Celestial emperor | |
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| | Flame Emperors (c. 2000 BC), legendary dynasty descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God | |
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| | mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃 of Fiery Emperor 炎帝 | |
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| | Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘 | |
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| | imperial capital | |
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| | heavenly emperor / "the Great" (title) | |
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| | Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity / aka Black Tortoise 玄武 or Black heavenly emperor 玄天上帝 | |
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| | Jehovah (biblical name for God, Hebrew: YHWH) / compare Yahweh 雅威 and God 上帝 | |
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| | Baidi town in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction | |
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| | Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 | |
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| | East Timor (officially Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) | |
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| | mythological daughter of Fiery Emperor 炎帝 who turned into bird Jingwei 精衛|精卫 after drowning | |
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| | imperial throne | |
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| | 秦越人 (407-310 BC), Warring States physician known for his medical skills, nicknamed Bian Que after the earliest known Chinese physician allegedly from the 黃帝|黄帝 era | |
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| | autocratic monarchy / imperial regime | |
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| | to be anti-imperialist | |
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| | Fiery Emperor's tomb in Yanling county, Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan | |
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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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| | to declare oneself emperor / to win the best actor award | |
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| | Dorgon (1612-1651), fourteenth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, successful general, instrumental in Manchu conquest of China, ruled China as regent 1644-1650 for his nephew Emperor Shunzhi 順治帝|顺治帝 | |
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| | three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography | |
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| | Emperor Hui of Jin (259-307), personal name 司馬衷|司马衷, 2nd emperor of Jin Dynasty 晉朝|晋朝, reigned 290-307 | |
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| | empress / imperial consort | |
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| | Cao Pi (187-226), second son of Cao Cao 曹操, king then emperor of Cao Wei 曹魏 from 220, ruled as Emperor Wen 魏文帝, also a noted calligrapher | |
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| | Zhuanxu, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝, grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝, trad. reigned 2513-2435 BC | |
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| | Chen Jiao, first wife of emperor 漢武帝|汉武帝, died c. 110 BC | |
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| | Chiyou, legendary tribal leader who was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 | |
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| | Nazi Germany / Third Reich (shorthand for 第三帝國|第三帝国) | |
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| | Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD) | |
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| | Liu Heng, personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi 漢文帝|汉文帝 / Liu Heng (1954-), Chinese writer | |
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| | Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝 | |
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| | Yu Shun, one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝 | |
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| | Yuwang (c. 2000 BC), last of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝, defeated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 | |
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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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| | The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC | |
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| | Liu Shi, personal name of Han Emperor Yuandi 漢元帝|汉元帝 | |
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| | Linkui (c. 2000 BC), second of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God | |
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| | Charlemagne (c. 747-c. 814), King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor from 800 | |
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| | Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC) | |
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| | abbr. for 黃帝內經|黄帝内经, The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC | |
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| | The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD | |
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| | Jade Emperor | |
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| | Tsarist Russia | |
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| | Russian empire (1546-1917) | |
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| | the Holy Roman Empire (history) | |
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| | Sima Yan (236-290), founder and first emperor (265-290) of the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋, posthumous name 晉武帝|晋武帝 | |
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| | (Tw) Eswatini | |
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| | alternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 | |
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| | lit. little princess / fig. spoiled girl / female version of 小皇帝 | |
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| | Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453) | |
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| | lit. the emperor is not worried, but his eunuchs are (idiom) / fig. the observers are more anxious than the person involved | |
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| | Wendi (541-604), posthumous name of the first Sui emperor, reigned 581-604 | |
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| | reign name of second Ming emperor, reigned 1398-1402, deposed in 1402 | |
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| | lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝 when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight | |
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| | Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867-1918 | |
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| | Timor Sea | |
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| | The Last Emperor, 1987 biopic of Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪 by Bernardo Bertolucci | |
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| | Emperor Ling of Han (156-189), reigned from 168 to 189 | |
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| | Emperor Wu of Song (363-422), personal name Liu Yu 劉裕|刘裕, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned 420-422 | |
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| | child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child | |
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| | 91 BC attempted coup d'etat against Emperor Wu of Han 漢武帝|汉武帝, beginning with accusations of witchcraft | |
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| | Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) | |
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| | Emperor Aidi of Tang, reign name of twenty-first and last Tang emperor Li Zhu 李祝 (892-908), reigned 904-907 | |
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| | Korean Empire, from fall of Joseon dynasty in 1897 to annexation by Japan in 1910 | |
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| | the Ottoman Empire | |
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| | Di Ku or Emperor Ku, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝, great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 | |
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| | Empire State Building (New York City) | |
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| | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London | |
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| | Emperor Ming of Han (28-75), Western Han Dynasty Emperor 58-75 | |
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| | Emperor Xian of Han (181-234), the final Han emperor, set up by Dong Zhuo 董卓, reigned 189-220, forced to abdicate 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕 | |
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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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| | the mausoleum of the First Emperor near Xi'an | |
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| | Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945) | |
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| | Daoguang Emperor | |
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| | Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618 | |
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| | Cao Pi 曹丕, emperor of Wei 220-226 | |
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| | the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism) | |
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| | posthumous edict of a former emperor / Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 edict to posterity | |
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| | Guangxu Emperor | |
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