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| | empire / imperial | HSK 7-9 |
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| | imperialism | HSK 7-9 |
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| | imperial capital | |
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| | regent / monarch | |
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| | emperor | |
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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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| | Flame Emperors (c. 2000 BC), legendary dynasty descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God | |
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| | imperial capital | |
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| | heavenly emperor / "the Great" (title) | |
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| | Baidi town in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction | |
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| | East Timor (officially Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) | |
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| | God of heaven / Celestial emperor | |
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| | imperial throne | |
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| | autocratic monarchy / imperial regime | |
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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 be anti-imperialist | |
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| | to declare oneself emperor / to win the best actor award | |
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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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| | Fiery Emperor's tomb in Yanling county, Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan | |
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| | empress / imperial consort | |
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| | Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD) | |
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| | local tyrant | |
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| | The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC | |
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| | Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC) | |
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| | Dili, capital of East Timor | |
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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 three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism) | |
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| | Empire State Building (New York City) | |
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| | the Holy Roman Empire (history) | |
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| | Emperor Ling of Han (156-189), reigned from 168 to 189 | |
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| | Dijun, Shang dynasty protector God, possibly same as legendary Emperor 帝嚳|帝喾 | |
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| | Charlemagne (c. 747-c. 814), King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor from 800 | |
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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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| | Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon | |
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| | (Tw) Eswatini | |
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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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| | eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw) | |
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| | Great Qing Empire (1644-1911) | |
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| | reign name of second Ming emperor, reigned 1398-1402, deposed in 1402 | |
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| | with all the majesty of an emperor (idiom) / reckless / intemperate | |
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| | Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867-1918 | |
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| | Timor Sea | |
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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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| | The Last Emperor, 1987 biopic of Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪 by Bernardo Bertolucci | |
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| | Guangxu Emperor | |
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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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| | Ottoman Empire (Tw) | |
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| | Fulin Emperor Shunzhi (1638-1662), second Qing emperor, reigned 1644-1662 | |
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | posthumous edict of a former emperor / Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 edict to posterity | |
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| | Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad 穆罕默德 in 632) | |
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| | Emperor Shang of Tang, reign name of fifth Tang emperor Li Chongmao 李重茂 (c. 695-715), reigned 710 | |
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| | British Empire | |
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| | lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom) / fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government | |
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| | empress / refers to Tang empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天 (624-705), reigned 690-705 | |
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| | Di Yi (died 1076 BC), Shang dynasty king, reigned 1101-1076 BC | |
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| | Timor island | |
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| | emperor penguin | |
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| | list of emperors and kings / dynastic genealogy | |
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| | Emperor Xin, last ruler of Shang (11th Century BC), famous as a tyrant | |
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| | one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor (proverb) / to a fearless person, no fence is high enough | |
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| | Tokyo Imperial University (renamed Tokyo University after 1945) | |
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| | Yuan Emperor, reign name of Han Dynasty emperor Liu Shi 劉奭|刘奭, (74-33 BC), reigned 48-33 BC | |
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| | Emperor Xuan (91-48 BC) of the Former Han Dynasty, reigned 74-48 BC | |
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| | Emperor Wen of Han (202-157 BC), fourth Han emperor, personal name Liu Heng 劉恆|刘恒, reigned 180-157 BC | |
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| | Liu Heng (202-157 BC), the fourth Han emperor Han Wendi, reigned 180-157 BC | |
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| | lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom) / fig. highly sought after | |
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| | the Emperor's new clothes (i.e. naked) | |
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| | the First Emperor 259-210 BC | |
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| | Empire State Building | |
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| | (in early CCP propaganda) United States (as an imperialist nation) / (in more recent times) a neutral, colloquial term for the United States | |
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| | several tombs of legendary Emperor Shun, one in Ningyuan county 寧遠縣|宁远县 in southwest Hunan, another Yuncheng prefecture 運城|运城 Shanxi | |
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| | Saracen Empire (medieval European name for Arab empire) | |
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| | chakravarti raja (emperor in Hindu mythology) | |
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| | tribes under the Yellow Emperor | |
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| | The Matrix (1999 movie) | |
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