十八shí bā eighteen / 18 年nián grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年
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十八 shí bā eighteen / 18 年 nián grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年 / [nian2] 前 qián front / forward / ahead / ago / before / first / former / formerly / future / BC (e.g. 前 / 293年 / ) 者 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後 / |后 / [hou4] or 前 / [qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defin 并 bìng variant of 並 / |并 / [bing4] 文 wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 118 月 yuè moon / month / CL:個 / |个 / [ge4],輪 / |轮 / [lun2] 色 sè color / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3] / look / appearance / sex
据 jū see 拮 / 據 / |拮 / 据 / [jie2 ju1] 吗 mǎ see
/
/ |吗 /
/ , morphine
委 wēi same as 逶 / in 逶 / 迤 / winding, curved 米 mǐ rice / CL:粒 / [li4] / meter (classifier) na (particle equivalent to 啊 / after noun ending in -n) 罪 zuì variant of 罪 / [zui4], crime 怪 guài variant of 怪 / [guai4] 沙 shā granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒 / [li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia 楼 lóu house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL:層 / |层 / [ceng2],座 / [zuo4],棟 / |栋 / [dong4] 呀 ya (particle equivalent to 啊 / after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) 沿 yàn riverside (often with 兒 / |儿 / erhua) la sentence-final particle, contraction of 了 / 啊 / , indicating exclamation / particle placed after each item in a list of examples 仙 xiān variant of 仙 / [xian1] 珠 zhū bead / pearl / CL:粒 / [li4],顆 / |颗 / [ke1] 抢 qiāng see 搶 / 風 / |抢 / 风 / [qiang1 feng1] 粗 cū remote / distant / variant of 粗 / [cu1]
薄 bò see 薄 / 荷 / [bo4 he5] 媒 méi medium / intermediary / matchmaker / go-between / abbr. for 媒 / 體 / |媒 / 体 / [mei2 ti3], media, esp. news media 仔 zī see 仔 / 肩 / [zi1 jian1] 陪 péi to accompany / to keep sb company / to assist / old variant of 賠 / |赔 / [pei2] 燕 Yān Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前 / 燕 / (337-370), Later Yan 後 / 燕 / |后 / 燕 / (384-409), Southern Yan 南 / 燕 / (39 豆 dòu bean / pea / CL:
/ [ke1],粒 / [li4] / sacrificial vessel
玲 líng (onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎 / 玲 / or 玲 / 瓏 / |玲 / 珑 / ) / tinkling of gem-pendants 呵 ā variant of 啊 / [a1] 哩 li (modal final particle similar to
/ [ne5] or
/ [la5])
胎 tāi fetus / litter / tire / abbr. of 輪 / 胎 / |轮 / 胎 倦 juàn old variant of 倦 / [juan4] 哇 wa replaces 啊 / [a5] when following the vowel "u" or "ao"
谜 mèi see 謎 / 兒 / |谜 / 儿 / [mei4 r5], riddle 妆 zhuāng variant of 妝 / |妆 / [zhuang1] 兮 xī (particle in old Chinese similar to 啊 / ) 癫 diān mentally deranged / crazy 呐 ne final particle of a sentence (abbr. for 呐 na sentence-final particle (abbr. for
/啊/|
/ 啊 / [ne5 a5)
/ 啊 / [ne5 a5] or variant of
/ [na5]) 啼 tí variant of 啼 / [ti2] 痪 huàn illness / numbness of the limbs 袅 niǎo variant of 裊 / |袅 / [niao3] 嚓 chā (onom.) snap / pop / see 喀 / 嚓 / [ka1 cha1] 药 yào medicine / drug / cure / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3],服 / [fu4],味 /
[wei4] 藐 miǎo to despise / small / variant of 渺 / [miao3] 躏 lìn to trample down / to oppress / to overrun / see 蹂 / 躪 / |蹂 / 躏 / [rou2 lin4] 癞 lài scabies / skin disease 噼 pī child's buttocks (esp. Cantonese) / see 噼 / 啪 / |劈 / 啪 / ,
(onom.) for crack, slap, clap, clatter etc 啮 niè variant of 嚙 / |啮 / [nie4] / to gnaw 啷 lāng (onom.) bang / clank / see 哐 / 啷 / , clatter 羿 Yì surname Yi / name of legendary archer / also written 后 / 羿 / [Hou4 Yi4] 哐 kuāng (onom.) clang / see 哐 / 啷 / , clatter 嗄 á variant of 啊 / , interjection expressing doubt or requiring answer / Eh? / what? / to show realization / to stress 樯 qiáng variant of 檣 / |樯 / [qiang2] 呋 fū see 呋 / 喃 / furan or 呋 / 喃 / 西 / 林 / furacilinum 岘 xiàn abbr. for 峴 / 首 / 山 / |岘 / 首 / 山 / [Xian4 shou3 shan1] / Mt Xianshou in Hubei / steep hill / used in place names 卟 bǔ see 卟 / 啉 / , porphyrin / see 卟 / 吩 / , porphin 姹 chà beautiful / see
/ 紫 / 嫣 / 紅 / |姹 / 紫 / 嫣 / 红 / [cha4 zi3
yan1 hong2] 啖 dàn variant of 啖 / [dan4] 孬 nāo see 孬 / 種 / |孬 /
/ [nao1 zhong3]
啉 lín see 卟 / 啉 / , porphyrin
鲃 bā see 䰾 / 魚 / |鲃 / 鱼 / [ba1 yu2] 喹 kuí see 喹 / 啉 / [kui2 lin2] 莳 shí see 蒔 / 籮 / |莳 / 箩 / [shi2 luo2] 秕 bǐ variant of 秕 / [bi3] 妁 shuò matchmaker / see 媒 / 妁 / [mei2 shuo4] 饸 hé see 餄 / 餎 / |饸 / 饹 / [he2 le5] cū variant of 粗 / [cu1] 饹 le see 餄 / 餎 / |饸 / 饹 / [he2 le5] 词 cí word / statement / speech / lyrics / CL:組 / |组 / [zu3],個 / |个 / [ge4] / classical Chinese poem / CL:首 / [shou3] 盐 yán salt / CL:粒 / [li4] 哕 huì see 噦 / 噦 / |哕 / 哕 / [hui4 hui4] 绦 dí see 絛 / 綸 / |绦 / 纶 / [di2 lun2] 麤 cū variant of 粗 / [cu1] 齧 niè variant of 嚙 / |啮 / [nie4] 诗 shī poem / CL:首 / [shou3] / poetry / verse 痖 yǎ mute, incapable of speech / same as 啞 / |哑 / [ya3] 竝 bìng variant of 並 / |并 / [bing4]
筼 yún see
/ 簹 / |筼 / 筜 / [yun2 dang1]
縩 cài see 綷 / 縩 / [cui4 cai4] 韩 Hán Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰 / 國 / 七 / 雄 / |战 / 国 / 七 / 雄 / Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897 / Korea, esp. South Korea 大 / 韓 / 民 / 國 / |大 / 韩 /
链 liàn chain / cable length (= 1 / 10 of a nautical mile, or 185.2 m) 铜 tóng copper (chemistry) / see also 紅 / 銅 / |红 / 铜 / [hong2 tong2] / CL:塊 / |块 / [kuai4] zhòu old variant of 籀 / [zhou4] 粧 zhuāng variant of 妝 / |妆 / [zhuang1] 襽 lán old variant of 襴 / |襕 / [lan2] / brocade 鲇 nián sheatfish (Parasilurus asotus) / oriental catfish / see also 鯰 / |鲶 / [nian2] 膪 chuài see 囊 / 膪 / [nang1 chuai4] 癀 huáng [FR] Charbon (maladie) 筜 dāng see
/ 簹 / |筼 / 筜 / [yun2 dang1]
哺 bù see 餔 / 子 / |哺 / 子 / [bu4 zi5]
秊 nián grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年 / [nian2] xiān shovel / variant of 鍁 / |锨 / [xian1] 丨 shù see 豎 / 筆 / |竖 / 笔 / [shu4 bi3] 亅 jué "vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6) / see also 豎 / 鉤 / |竖 / 钩 / [shu4 gou1] 飌 fēng old variant of 風 / |风 / [feng1] 佢 qú he (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 他 / [ta1] 怹 tān he / she / (courteous, as opposed to 他 / [ta1]) 餧 wèi variant of
/|
/ [wei4]
佡 xiān variant of 仙 / , immortal / light (as a feather) bìng variant of 併 / |并 / [bing4] 僊 xiān variant of 仙 / , immortal 児 ér Japanese variant of 兒 / |儿 刂 dāo "knife" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18) / see also 立 / 刀 / 旁 / [li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側 / 刀 / 旁 / |侧 / 刀 / 旁 / [ce4 dao1 pang2] 勣 jì variant of 績 / |绩 / merit / accomplishment zào variant of 唣 / or luó / zà / o 啰 / 唣 / , to make trouble
啓 qǐ variant of 啟 / |启 / [qi3] 啫 zhě particle used for interjection (Cantonese) / see also 啫 / 哩 / [zhe3 li1] 塁 lěi Japanese variant of 壘 / |垒 奨 jiǎng Japanese variant of 獎 / |奖 / [jiang3] 奬 jiǎng variant of 獎 / |奖 / [jiang3] 帯 dài Japanese variant of 帶 / |带 怸 xī obscure variant of 悉 / Achyranthes bidentata, a root used in Chinese medicine, equivalent to 牛 / 膝 拠 jù Japanese variant of 據 / |据 桜 yīng Japanese variant of 櫻 / |樱 / [ying1] 癎 xián variant of 癇 / |痫 / , epilepsy 綫 xiàn variant of 線 / |线 / [xian4] 艹 cǎo grass radical 草 / 字 / 頭 / 兒 / |草 / 字 / 头 / 儿 / [cao3 zi4 tou2 r5] 褭 niǎo variant of 裊 / |袅 / [niao3] 誯 chàng (old) variant of 唱 / [chang4] / to sing 譱 shàn archaic variant of 善 / [shan4]
zuì variant of 罪 / , crime 頼 lài Japanese variant of 賴 / |赖 cān variant of 餐 / [can1] 鶤 kūn variant of 鵾 / |鹍 / , large bird, possibly related to crane or swan (archaic) / mythical monstrous bird, cf Sinbad's roc 啴 tān see
/
啴 chǎn see
/ |啴 / 啴 / [tan1 tan1] /
/ |啴 / 啴 / [chan3 chan3] / see
/ 緩 / |啴 / 缓 /
[chan3 huan3] 啰 luō see 囉 / 嗦 / |啰 / 嗦 / [luo1 suo5] bìng variant of 並 / |并 / [bing4] / variant of 併 / |并 / [bing4] 恠 guài variant of 怪 / [guai4] 綷 cuì five-color silk / see 綷 / 縩 / [cui4 cai4] 邷 wǎ to grab / see 邷 / 麼 / 兒 / |邷 / 么 / 儿 / [wa3 mo2 r5] 技术 jì shù technology / technique / skill / CL:門 / |
/ [men2],種 / |
/
[zhong3],項 / |项 / [xiang4] 上海 Shàng hǎi Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬 / |沪 / [Hu4] 情况 qíng kuàng circumstances / state of affairs / situation / CL:個 /
|个 / [ge4],種 / |
/ [zhong3]
系 guān xì variant of 關 / 係 / |
/ 系 / [guan1 xi4]
系 guān xi variant of 關 / 係 / |
/ 系 / [guan1 xi5]
文化 wén huà culture / civilization / cultural / CL:個 / |个 / [ge4],種 / | / [zhong3] 语言 yǔ yán language / CL:門 / |
/ [men2],種 / |
/ [zhong3]
保护 bǎo hù to protect / to defend / to safeguard / protection / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
材料 cái liào material / data / makings / stuff / CL:個 / |个 / [ge4],種 / |
/ [zhong3]
科学 kē xué science / scientific knowledge / scientific / CL:門 / | [men2],個 / |个 / [ge4],種 / |
/
/ [zhong3]
改革 gǎi gé reform / CL:次 / [ci4],種 / |
/ [zhong3],項 / |项 / [xiang4] /
to reform 韩 国 Hán guó South Korea (Republic of Korea) / Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰 / 國 / 七 / 雄 / |战 / 国 / 七 / 雄 / [zhan4 guo2 qi1 xiong2] / Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897
食品 shí pǐn foodstuff / food / provisions / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
享受 xiǎng shòu to enjoy / to live it up / pleasure / CL:種 / |
/
[zhong3] 感 情 gǎn qíng feeling / emotion / sensation / likes and dislikes / deep affection for sb or sth / relationship (i.e. love affair) / CL:個 / |个 / [ge4],種 / |
/ [zhong3]
光 yáng guāng sunshine / CL:線 / |线 / [xian4] / transparent (open to public scrutiny) 现象 xiàn xiàng appearance / phenomenon / CL:個 / |个 / [ge4],種 / |
/ [zhong3]
文学 wén xué literature / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
重庆 Chóng qìng Chongqing city (Chungking), formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, short name 渝 / [Yu2] 武器 wǔ qì weapon / arms / CL:種 / | 皮
/ [zhong3]
pí fū skin / CL:層 / |层 / [ceng2],塊 / |块 / [kuai4]
背景 bèi jǐng background / backdrop / context / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
子 zhǒng zi seed / CL:顆 / |颗 / [ke1],粒 / [li4] 道德 dào dé virtue / morality / ethics / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
金属 jīn shǔ metal / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
情绪 qíng xù mood / state of mind / moodiness / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
云 南 Yún nán Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇 / [dian1] or 雲 / |云 / , capital Kunming 昆 / 明 食物 shí wù food / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
塑料 sù liào plastics / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
山西 Shān xī Shanxi province (Shansi) in north China between Hebei and Shaanxi, abbr. 晋 / capital Taiyuan 太 / 原 营
yíng yǎng nutrition / nourishment / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
植物 zhí wù botanical / plant / vegetation / CL:種 / | 彩色 cǎi sè color / multi-colored / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
/ [zhong3]
蔬菜 shū cài vegetables / produce / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
美术 měi shù art / fine arts / painting / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
厘米 lí mǐ centimeter / also written 厘 / 米 粮食 liáng shi foodstuff / cereals / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
玉米 yù mǐ corn / maize / CL:粒 / [li4] 气候 qì hòu climate / atmosphere / situation / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
中药 Zhōng yào (traditional) Chinese medicine / CL:服 / [fu4],種 / |
/
[zhong3] 纤维 xiān wéi fiber / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
平米 píng mǐ square meter / short for 平 / 方 / 米 款式 kuǎn shì pattern / style / design / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
科幻 kē huàn science fiction / abbr. for 科 / 學 / 幻 / 想 / |科 / 学 / 幻 / 想 / [ke1 xue2 huan4 xiang3] 诗歌 shī gē poem / CL:本 / [ben3],首 / [shou3],段 / [duan4] 企图 qǐ tú to attempt / to try / attempt / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
政 协 Zhèng Xié CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) / abbr. of 中 / 國 / 人 / 民 / 政 / 治 / 協 / 商 / 會 / 議 / |中 / 国 / 人 / 民 / 政 / 治 / 协 / 商 / 会 / 议 / [Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Z 茶叶 chá yè tea / tea-leaves / CL:盒 / [he2],罐 / [guan4],包 / [bao1],片 / [pian4] 小麦 xiǎo mài wheat / CL:粒 / [li4] 子弹 zǐ dàn bullet / CL:粒 / [li4],顆 / |颗 / [ke1],發 / |发 / [fa1] 中 专 zhōng zhuān vocational secondary school / technical secondary school / trade school / abbr. for 中 / 等 / 專 / 科 / 學 / 校 / |中 / 等 / 专 /
科/学/校 惟一 wéi yī only / sole / variant of 唯 / 一 / [wei2 yi1] 明月 míng yuè bright moon / refers to 夜 / 明 / 珠 / , a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL:輪 / |轮 / [lun2] 干吗 gàn má see 幹 / 嘛 / |干 / 嘛 / [gan4 ma2] 得罪 dé zui to offend somebody / to make a faux pas / a faux pas / see also 得 / 罪 / [de2 zui4] 得罪 dé zuì to commit an offense / to violate the law / excuse me! (formal) / see also 得 / 罪 / [de2 zui5] 饭 wǎn fàn evening meal / dinner / supper / CL:份 / [fen4],頓 / |顿 / [dun4],次 / [ci4],餐 / [can1] 大唐 dà táng the Tang dynasty (618-907) 科普 kē pǔ popular science / popularization of science / abbr. of 科 / 學 / 普 / 及 / |科 / 学 / 普 / 及 花儿 huā ér style of folk song popular in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia / CL:首 / [shou3] 抽象 chōu xiàng abstract / abstraction / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
大卫 Dà wèi David (name) / Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825),
French neoclassical painter 油漆 yóu qī oil paints / lacquer / to paint / CL:層 / |层 / [ceng2] 花生 huā shēng peanut / groundnut / CL:粒 / [li4] 薄膜 bó mó membrane / film / CL:層 / |层 / [ceng2] 浓 缩 nóng suō to concentrate (a liquid) / concentration / espresso coffee / abbr. for 意 / 式 / 濃 / 縮 / 咖 /
/ |意 / 式 / 浓 / 缩 / 咖 /
整形 zhěng xíng shaping / reshaping / plastic surgery or orthopedics (abbr. of 整 / 形 / 外 / 科 / [zheng3 xing2 wai4 ke1]) 三农 sān nóng see 三 / 農 / 問 / 題 / |三 / 农 / 问 / 题 / [san1 nong2 wen4 ti2] 理科 lǐ kē the sciences (as opposed to the humanities 文 / 科 / [wen2 ke1]) 糖果 táng guǒ candy / CL:粒 / [li4] 百科 bǎi kē universal / encyclopedic / abbr. for 百 / 科 / 全 / 書 / |百 / 科 / 全 / 书 / [bai3 ke1 quan2 shu1] 工 行 Gōng háng ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) / abbr. for 工 / 商 / 銀 / 行 / |工 / 商 / 银 / 行 / [Gong1 Shang1 Yin2 hang2]
午饭 wǔ fàn lunch / CL:份 / [fen4],頓 / |顿 / [dun4],次 / [ci4],餐 / [can1] 磁带 cí dài magnetic tape / CL:盤 / |盘 / [pan2],盒 / [he2] 惟有 wéi yǒu variant of 唯 / 有 / [wei2 you3] 唐朝 Táng cháo Tang dynasty (618-907) 唐代 Táng dài Tang dynasty (618-907) 细雨 xì yǔ fine rain / drizzle / poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李 / 商 / 隱 / |李 / 商 / 隐 民歌 mín gē folk song / CL:支 / [zhi1],首 / [shou3] 汉 城 Hàn chéng Hanseong, old name of Seoul as traditional capital of Korea and capital of South Korea / adopted new Chinese spelling 首 / 爾 / |首 / 尔 / [Shou3 er3] in 2005 早饭 zǎo fàn breakfast / CL:份 / [fen4],頓 / |顿 / [dun4],次 / [ci4],餐 / [can1] 劲儿 jìn r erhua variant of 勁 / |劲 / [jin4] 火柴 huǒ chái match (for lighting fire) / CL:根 / [gen1],盒 / [he2] 源 kāi yuán to expand one's financial resources / abbr. for 開 / 放 / 源/碼/|
/ 放 / 源 / 码 / [kai1 fang4 yuan2 ma3]
沙子 shā zi sand / grit / CL:粒 / [li4],把 / [ba3]
珠子 zhū zi bead / CL:粒 / [li4],顆 / |颗 / [ke1] 胡须 hú xū beard / CL:根 / [gen1],
/ |绺 / [liu3]
出 访 chū fǎng to travel on business / to visit (a foreign country) / same as 外 / 出 / 訪 / 問 / |外 / 出 / 访 / 问 / [wai4 chu1 fang3 wen4] 娜娜 Nà nà Nana (name) / Nana (1880 novel by É / mile Zola) / Nana (Japanese manga series) 特警 tè jǐng SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) / riot police / abbr. for 特 / 種 / 警 / 察 / |特 /
/警/察
先发 xiān fā initial / arising first / same as 首 / 先 / 發 / 起 / |首 / 先 / 发 /起 酪 nǎi lào cheese / CL:塊 / |块 / [kuai4],盒 / [he2],片 / [pian4] 列
Liè níng Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian
revolutionary leader 慈禧 Cí Xǐ Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908) 林肯 Lín kěn Lincoln (name) / Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US president 1861-1865 / Lincoln, US car make 飘浮 piāo fú to float / to hover / also written 漂 / 浮 缥缈 piǎo miǎo see 飄 / 渺 / |飘 / 渺 / [piao1 miao3]
光绪 Guāng xù reign name of penultimate Qing emperor Guangxu or Guang-hsu (1875-1908) 前
qián mén front door / main entrance / honest and upright
approach (as opposed to 後 / 門 / |后 /
/ , back-door or under the
counter) 药丸 yào wán pill / CL:粒 / [li4] 五 代 Wǔ dài Five Dynasties (in different contexts, from mythology through to Han and the interregnum between Han and Tang) / the five dynasties forming the interregnum between Tang and Song (936947), namely: Later Liang 後 / 梁 / |后 / 梁 / [Hou4 Liang2] 霓裳 ní cháng nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the eight immortals 八 / 仙 / [Ba1 Xian1] 庄稼 zhuāng jia farm crop / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
高丽 Gāo lí Korean Goryeo 고 / 려 / dynasty, 918-1392 / Korea, esp. in context of art and culture 干么 gàn má see 幹 / 嘛 / |干 / 嘛 / [gan4 ma2] 惟恐 wéi kǒng for fear that / lest / also written 唯 / 恐 加沙 Jiā shā Gaza / same as 加 / 沙 / 地 / 帶 / |加 / 沙 / 地 / 带 / [Jia1
sha1 di4 dai4], the Gaza strip 龙眼 lóng yǎn longan fruit / dragon eye fruit / Dimocarpus longan (botany) / CL:粒 / [li4] 道光 Dào guāng reign name of Qing emperor (1821-1850) 唐宋 Táng Sòng the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties 隋唐 Suí Táng Sui (581-617) and Tang dynasties (618-907) 出 笼 chū lóng just out of the steamer basket 蒸 / 籠 / |蒸 / 笼 / to appear (of products, publications, sometimes derog., "lots of shoddy material is appearing nowadays") 冰雹 bīng báo hail / hailstone / CL:場 / |场 / [chang2],粒 / [li4] 太宗 Tài zōng posthumous name given to second emperor of a dynasty / King Taejong of Joseon Korea (1367-1422), reigned 14001418 咔嚓 kā chā (onom.) breaking or snapping / cut it out / stop it (colloquial) / also written 喀 / 嚓 / [ka1 cha1] 高斯 Gāo sī Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician / Gauss, unit of magnetic induction 新 军 Xīn jūn New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's
victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895) 情商 qíng shāng emotional quotient (EQ) / emotional IQ / abbr. for 情 / 緒 / 商 / 數 / |情 / 绪 / 商 / 数 / [qing2 xu4 shang1 shu4] 多糖 duō táng polysaccharide (complex carbohydrate such as starch 澱 / 粉 / |淀 / 粉 / and cellulose 纖 / 維 / 素 / |纤 / 维 / 素 / ) 朱德 Zhū Dé Zhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army 卡
Kǎ mén Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges
Bizet 比 / 才 / based on novel by Proper Mé / rimé / e 梅 / 里 / 美 / [Mei2 li3 mei3] 未成 wèi chéng minor (i.e. person under 18) / incomplete / unachieved / failed / abortive 韦德 Wéi dé Wade (name) / Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威 / 妥 / 瑪 / |威 / 妥 / 玛 / [Wei1 Tuo3 ma3] 中青 zhōng qīng China Youth (official newspaper) / abbr. for 中 / 国 / 青/年/报 迪厅 dí tīng disco / night club / abbr. for 迪 / 斯 / 科 / 廳 / |迪 / 斯 / 科 / 厅
罗 素 Luó sù Russell (name) / Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist 起航 qǐ háng (of a ship) to set sail / (of an aeroplane) to take off / also written 啟 / 航 / |启 / 航 / [qi3 hang2] 统战 tǒng zhàn united front (abbr. for 統 / 一 / 戰 / 線 / |统 / 一 / 战 / 线 / ) / consolidation 康德 Kāng dé Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher 明治 Míng zhì Meiji (Japanese reign name 1868-1912) 黄油 huáng yóu butter / CL:盒 / [he2] 湘军 Xiāng jūn Hunan army, irregular force formed in 1850s to fight the Taiping heavenly kingdom rebellion 雨果 Yǔ guǒ Hugo (name) / Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer 大 运 Dà yùn Mandate of Heaven / the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC / usually written 大 / 運 / 河 / |大 / 运 / 河 / [Da4 Yun4 he2] 染指 rǎn zhǐ to dip a finger (idiom) / fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action / abbr. for 染 / 指 / 於 / 鼎 / |染 / 指 / 于 / 鼎
尼采 Ní cǎi Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1900), German philosopher 女 真 Nu:3 zhēn Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後 / 金 / |后 / 金 / [Hou4 Jin1] and Qing Dynasty 歌德 Gē dé Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet and dramatist 嘉庆 Jiā qìng Jiaqing, reign name of Qing emperor (1796-1820) 副食 fù shí non-staple food / CL:種 / |
/ [zhong3]
戊戌 wù xū thirty-fifth year E11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1958 or 2018 高 宗 Gāo zōng Gaozong Emperor, Temple name of the tenth Song Emperor Zhao Gou 趙 / 構 / |赵 / 构 / [Zhao4 Gou4] (1107-1187 AD), reigned (1127-1162 AD) 同治 Tóng zhì reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875) 租界 zū jiè settlement / international settlement in many Chinese cities established under unequal treaties from 1860 飘泊 piāo bó to drift / to lead a wandering existence / also written 漂 /
泊 橙汁 chéng zhī orange juice / CL:瓶 / [ping2],杯 / [bei1],罐 / [guan4],盒 / [he2] 特 首 tè shǒu chief executive of Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong or Macao) / abbr. for 特 / 別 / 行 / 政 / 區 / 首 / 席 / 執 / 行 / 官 / |特 /
/行/政/区/首/席/执/行/官
科考 kē kǎo preliminary round of imperial examinations / abbr. for 科 / 學 / 考 / 察 / |科 / 学 / 考 / 察 / [ke1 xue2 kao3 cha2], scientific exploration 贺龙 Hè Lóng He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution 八 旗 bā qí Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後 / 金 / |后 / 金 / [Hou4 Jin1] from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty 天干 tiān gān the 10 heavenly stems 甲 / [jia3], 乙 / [yi3], 丙 / [bing3], 丁 / [ding1], 戊 / [wu4], 己 / [ji3], 庚 / [geng1], 辛 / [xin1], 壬 / [ren2], 癸 / [gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
李渊 Lǐ Yuān Li Yuan, personal name of first Tang emperor Gaozu 唐 / 高 / 祖 / [Tang2 Gao1 zu3] (566-635), reigned 618-626 茅盾 Máo Dùn Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist 庚 子 gēng zǐ thirty seventh year G1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020 / cf 庚 / 子 / 國 / 變 / |庚 / 子 / 国 / 变 / , the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion 厚薄 hòu bó to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚 / 此 / 薄 / 彼 / [hou4 ci3 bo2 bi3]) 临河 Lín hé Linhe district of Bayan Nur city 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / 市 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / 市 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3 shi4], Inner Mongolia 温 网 Wēn wǎng Wimbledon lawn tennis championship / abbr. for 溫 / 布 / 爾 / 登 / 網 / 球 / 公 / 開 / 賽 / |温 / 布 / 尔 / 登 / 网 / 球 / 公 /
/赛
禁烟 jìn yān prohibition on opium (esp. from 18th- early 20th century) / smoking ban / No Smoking! (usual sign in Japan) 五 音 wǔ yīn five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉 / 音 / , 牙 / 音 / , 舌 / 音 / , 齒 / 音 / |齿 / 音 / , 唇 / 音
东突 Dōng tū abbr. for 東 / 突 / 厥 / 斯 / 坦 / 解 / 放 / 組 / 織 / |东 / 突 / 厥 / 斯 / 坦 / 解 / 放 / 组 / 织 / East Turkestan liberation organization ETLO, Chinese dissident group 玄学 xuán xué Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals / translation of metaphysics (also translated 形 / 而 / 上 / 學 / |形 / 而 / 上 / 学 / ) 医大 yī dà abbr. for 醫 / 科 / 大 / 學 / |医 / 科 / 大 / 学 / [yi1 ke1 da4 xue2], university of medicine 筋斗 jīn dǒu to tumble / somersault / a complete turn-around / a 180 degrees turn / fig. a change of mind 马 赫 Mǎ hè Mach (name) / Ernst Mach (1838-1916), German physicist / Mach (aeronautics), unit of speed based on speed of sound = 1 Mach = 1224 km per hr 整风 zhěng fēng Rectification or Rectifying incorrect work styles, Maoist slogan / cf Rectification campaign 整 / 風 / 運 / 動 / |整 / 风 / 运 / 动 / , army purge of 1942-44 and anti-rightist purge of 1957 飘流 piāo liú rafting / to float on the current / also written 漂 / 流 / [piao1 liu2]
国 耻 guó chǐ national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and more especially to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九 / 一 / 八 / 事 / 變 / |九 / 一 / 八 / 事 / 变 / and subsequent Jap 双
shuāng kāi double expulsion (from the party and from
administrative post, as a punishment for corruption) / abbr. for 開 / 除 / 黨 / 籍 / ,行 / 政 / 開 / 除 / |
/ 除 / 党 / 籍 / ,行 / 政 /
/除
属相 shǔ xiàng colloquial term for 生 / 肖 / [sheng1 xiao4] the animals associated with the years of a 12-year cycle 赫 兹 Hè zī Hertz (name) / Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist and meteorologist, pioneer of electromagnetic radiation / Herz (Hz) or cycles per second, unit of frequency 黄
Huáng Xīng Huang Xing (1874-1916), revolutionary politician,
close collaborator of Sun Yat-sen, prominent in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛 / 亥 / 革 / 命 / [Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], murdered in Shanghai in 1916 世宗 Shì zōng Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented
曹丕 Cáo Pī 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 达赖 Dá lài the Dalai Lama / abbr. of 達 / 賴 / 喇 / 嘛 / |达 / 赖 / 喇 / 嘛 / [Da2 lai4 La3 ma5] 念珠 niàn zhū prayer beads / CL:串 / [chuan4] 燕 国 Yān guó Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前 / 燕 / (337-370), Later Yan 後 / 燕 / |后 / 燕 / (384-409), Southern Yan 南 / 燕 / (39 哈勃 Hā bó Hubble (name) / Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer 唢 呐 suǒ nà suona, Chinese shawm (oboe), used in festivals and processions or for military purposes / also written 鎖 / 吶 / |锁 / 呐 / also called 喇 / 叭 / [la3 ba5] 张角 Zhāng Jué Zhang Jue (-184), leader of the Yellow turban rebels during the late Han 实 qiàn shí Gorgon fruit / Semen euryales (botany) / see also 雞 /
頭 / 米 / |鸡 / 头 / 米 / [ji1 tou2 mi3] 弹子 dàn zi slingshot pellet / playing marbles / billiards / CL:粒 / [li4],顆 / |颗 / [ke1] 赫德 Hè dé Hart or Herd (name) / Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office 法 家 Fǎ jiā Legalist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Han Fei 韓 / 非 / |韩 / 非 / [Han2 Fei1] and Li Si 李 / 斯 / [Li3 Si1], later adopted by Shang Yang 商 / 鞅 / [Shang1 Yang1] whose reforms helped establish the su 岩层 yán céng variant of 岩 / 層 / |岩 / 层 / [yan2 ceng2] / rock strata 马勒 Mǎ lè Mahler (name) / Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Austrian composer 噼啪 pī pā see 劈 / 啪 / [pi1 pa1] 环法 huán fǎ Tour de France cycle race / abbr. for 環 / 法 / 自 / 行 / 車 / 賽 / |环 / 法 / 自 / 行 / 车 / 赛 美玲 Měi Líng Mei Ling (girl's name) / Zhou Meiling 周 / 美 / 玲 / (1969-), Taiwanese gay film director 干校 gàn xiào school for cadres / May 7 Cadre School 五 / 七 / 幹 / 校
/ |五 / 七 / 干 / 校 海顿 Hǎi dùn Haydn (name) / Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian classical composer 丰采 fēng cǎi variant of 風 / 采 / |风 / 采 / [feng1 cai3] 田 汉 Tián Hàn Tian Han (1898-1968), author of the words of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義 / 勇 / 軍 / 進 / 行 / 曲 / |义 / 勇 / 军 / 进 / 行 / 曲 刘毅 Liú Yì Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西 / 晉 / |西 / 晋 / [Xi1 Jin4] (265316) / Liu Yi (-412), general of Eastern Jin dynasty 東 / 晉 / |东 / 晋 / [Dong1 Jin4] (317-420) 叶挺 Yè Tǐng Ye Ting (1896-1946), communist military leader 士族 shì zú land-owning class, esp. during Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties 魏 / 晉 / 南 / 北 / 朝 / |魏 / 晋 / 南 / 北 / 朝 列 子 Liè zǐ Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰 / 國 / |战 / 国 / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏 / 晉 / |魏 / 晋 / (3rd century AD)
殷墟 Yīn xū Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷 / 商 / city at Anyang 安 / 陽 / |安 /
/ in Henan province, a World Heritage site
巴 豆 bā dòu croton (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大 / 戟 / 科 / [da4 ji3 ke1] / croton seed, a strong purgative 丰功 fēng gōng brilliant (exploit) / great (achievement) / esp. 豐 / 功 / 偉 / 績 / |丰 / 功 / 伟 / 绩 / , glorious achievement 莫奈 Mò nài Claude Monet (1840-1926), French impressionist painter
百济 Bǎi jì Paekche or Baekje (18 BC-660 AD), one of the Korean Three Kingdoms 霞飞 Xiá fēi Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), leading French general at the start of World War One 康 生 Kāng Shēng Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses 霜降 Shuāng jiàng Shuangjiang or Frost Descends, 18th of the 24 solar terms 二 / 十 / 四 / 節 / 氣 / |二 / 十 / 四 / 节 / 气 / 23rd October6th November
左拉 Zuǒ lā Zola (name) / É / mile Zola (1840-1902), French naturalist novelist 昆剧 Kūn jù see 崑 / 曲 / |昆 / 曲 / [Kun1 qu3] 阿盟 A1 Méng Alxa League, a prefecture level subdivision of Inner Mongolia / abbr. for 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2] 严
Yán Fù Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and
translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences 东洲 Dōng zhōu Dongzhou district of Fushun city 撫 / 順 / 市 / |抚 / 顺 / 市 / , Liaoning 秋瑾 qiū jǐn Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the antiQing revolution, the subject of several books and films 李贺 Lǐ Hè LiHe (790-816), Tang poet and author of 南 /
/十/三/
首 蔡锷 Cài è Cai E (1882-1916), originator of the National protection army of 1915 广 雅 Guǎng yǎ earliest extant Chinese encyclopedia from Wei of the Three Kingdoms, 3rd century, modeled on Erya 爾 / 雅 / |尔 / 雅 / [Er3 ya3], 18150 entries
席勒 Xí lè Schiller (name) / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist 石勒 Shí Lè Shi Le, founder of Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms 後 / 趙 / |后 / 赵 / (319-350) 格 Róng gé Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist 赤豆 chì dòu see 紅 / 豆 / |红 / 豆 / [hong2 dou4] 苞米 bāo mǐ variant of 包 / 米 / [bao1 mi3] 巴 解 Bā jiě Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) / abbr. for 巴 / 勒 / 斯 / 坦 / 解 / 放 / 組 / 織 / |巴 / 勒 / 斯 / 坦 / 解 / 放 / 组 / 织 / [Ba1 le4 si1 tan3 Jie3 fang4 Zu3 zhi1] 库仑 Kù lún Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806), French physicist / Coulomb (unit of charge) 盒带 hé dài cassette tape / abbr. for 盒 / 式 / 錄 / 音 / 磁 / 帶 / |盒 / 式 / 录 / 音 / 磁 / 带 / CL:盤 / |盘 / [pan2] 项 英 Xiàng Yīng Xiang Ying (1898-1941), communist general involved in forming the New Fourth Army 新 / 四 / 軍 / , killed in 1941 during the New Fourth Army incident 皖 / 南 / 事 / 变 海涅 Hǎi niè Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet
陈寿 Chén Shòu Western Jin dynasty 西 / 晋 / historian, author of History of the Three Kingdoms 三 / 國 / 志 / |三 / 国 / 志 电木 diàn mù bakelite (early plastic) / also written 膠 / 木 / |胶 / 木 / [jiao1 mu4] 蛇 岛 Shé dǎo Shedao or Snake island in Bohai sea 渤 / 海 / off Lü / shun 旅 / 順 / |旅 / 顺 / on the tip of the Liaoning peninsula, small rocky island famous for snakes 彩卷 cǎi juǎn color film / abbr. for 彩 / 色 / 膠 / 卷 / |彩 / 色 / 胶 / 卷 / lottery ticket 费 曼 Fèi màn Feinman or Feynman (name) / Richard Feynman (1918-1988), US physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate together with TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō / and Julian Schwinger 缥渺 piǎo miǎo see 飄 / 渺 / |飘 / 渺 / [piao1 miao3] 六 书 liù shū Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說 / 文 / |说 / 文 / - namely, two primary methods: 象 / 形 / (pictogram), 指 / 事 / (ideogram), two compound methods: 會 / 意 / |会 / ø 伦琴 lún qín Wilhelm Conrad Rö / ntgen or Roentgen (1845-1923)
鱼船 yú chuán fishing boat / same as 漁 / 船 / |渔 / 船 虫牙 chóng yá caries / rotten tooth (colloquial) / see also 齲 / 齒 / |龋 / 齿 / [qu3 chi3] 大篆 dà zhuàn the great seal / used narrowly for 籀 / 文 / used broadly for many pre-Qin scripts 哑子 yǎ zi mute person / dumb person / (more commonly called 啞 / 巴 / |哑 / 巴 / [ya3 ba5]) 黏胶 nián jiāo viscose / also written 粘 / 膠 / |粘 / 胶 变 文 biàn wén a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes) 画 chóu huà variant of 籌 / 劃 / |
/
/ [chou2 hua4]
带儿 dài r erhua variant of 帶 / |带 / [dai4] 胡适 Hú Shì Hu Shi (1891-1962), original proponent of writing in colloquial Chinese 白 / 話 / 文 / |白 / 话 / 文 黎曼 Lí màn G.F.B. Riemann (1826-1866), German geometer 鲁迅 Lǔ Xùn Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers
沿儿 yán r edge (used directly after a noun, e.g. roadside 馬 / 路 / 沿 / 兒 / |马 / 路 / 沿 / 儿 / ) 波德 Bō dé Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826), German astronomer 曹锟 Cáo Kūn Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords 董 卓 Dǒng Zhuó Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü / Bu 呂 / 布 / |吕 / 布 兰克 Lán kè Rank (name) / Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), important German historian 老舍 Lǎo Shě Lao She (1899-1966) famous Chinese novelist 李 靖 Lǐ Jìng Li Jing (570-649 AD), Tang Dynasty general and purported author of &rdquo / Duke Li of Wei answering Emperor Taizong of Tang&rdquo / 唐 / 太 / 宗 / 李 / 衛 / 公 / 問 / 對 / |唐 / 太 / 宗/李/卫/公/问/ 李煜 Lǐ Yù Li Yu (c. 937-978), given name of the final ruler of Tang of the Five Southern dynasties Li Houzhu 李 / 後 / 主 / |李 / 后 / 主 / , a renowned poet 林森 Lín Sēn Lin Sen (1868-1943), revolutionary politician, colleague
of Sun Yat-sen, chairman of the Chinese nationalist government (1928-1932) 邹容 Zōu Róng Zou Rong (1885-1905), a martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, died in jail in 1905 一並 yī bìng variant of 一 / 併 / |一 / 并 / , to lump together / to treat along with all the others 五原 Wǔ yuán Wuyuan county in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 五华 Wǔ huá Wuhua county in Meizhou 梅 / 州 / , Guangdong / Wuhua district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 / [Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 介休 Jiè xiū Jiexiu county level city in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 伽 师 Jiā shī Peyzivat nahiyisi (Peyziwat county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 个旧 Gè jiù Gejiu, county level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彞 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / |红 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彝 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / [Hong2 he2
六淫 liù yín (TCM) six excesses causing illness, namely: excessive wind 風 / |风 / [feng1], cold 寒 / [han2], heat 暑 / [shu3], damp 濕 / |湿 / [shi1], dryness 燥 / [zao4], fire 火 / [huo3] 六邪 liù xié (TCM) six unhealthy influences causing illness, namely: excessive wind 風 / |风 / [feng1], cold 寒 / [han2], heat 暑 / [shu3], damp 濕 / |湿 / [shi1], dryness 燥 / [zao4], fire 火 / [huo3] 凌河 Líng hé Linghe district of Jinzhou city 錦 / 州 / 市 / |锦 / 州 / 市 / , Liaoning 凌海 Líng hǎi Linghai county level city in Jinzhou 錦 / 州 / |锦 / 州 / , Liaoning 剿袭 chāo xí variant of 抄 / 襲 / |抄 / 袭 / [chao1 xi2] 刘
Liú Xù Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five
Dynasties 後 / 晉 / |后 / 晋 / , compiled History of Early Tang Dynasty 舊 / 唐 / 書 / |旧 / 唐 / 书 刘渊 Liú Yuān Liu Yuan, warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西 / 晋 / , founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成 / 漢 / |成 / 汉 / (304-347) 刘鹗 Liú E4 Liu E (1857-1909), late Qing novelist, author of 老 / 殘 /
遊 / 記 / |老 / 残 / 游 / 记 / [Lao3 Can2 You2 ji4] 包米 bāo mǐ (dialect) corn / maize / also written 苞 / 米 / [bao1 mi3] 北镇 Běi zhèn Beizhen county level city in Jinzhou 錦 / 州 / |锦 / 州 / , Liaoning 十 干 shí gān same as 天 / 干 / the 10 heavenly stems 甲 / , 乙 / , 丙 / , 丁 / , 戊 / , 己 / , 庚 / , 辛 / , 壬 / , 癸 / (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III) 反式 fǎn shì trans- (isomer) (chemistry) / see also 順 / 式 / |顺 / 式 / [shun4 shi4] 古塔 Gǔ tǎ Guta district of Jinzhou city 錦 / 州 / 市 / |锦 / 州 / 市 / , Liaoning 古诺 Gǔ nuò Gounod (name) / Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer 合並 hé bìng variant of 合 / 併 / |合 / 并 / , to merge / to annex 吖 嗪 ā qín -azine / heterocyclic compound containing nitrogen in their ring such as pyridine 吡 / 啶 / [bi3 ding4] C5H5N, pyrazine
/ 嗪 / |哒
/ 嗪 / [da1 qin2] C4H4N2 or pyrimidine 嘧 / 啶 / [mi4 ding4] C4H4N2 呈贡 Chéng gòng Chenggong county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1
ming2], Yunnan 咬啮 yǎo niè variant of 咬 / 嚙 / |咬 / 啮 / [yao3 nie4] / to gnaw 咸 丰 Xián fēng reign name of Qing emperor (1850-1861) / Xianfeng county in Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 恩 / 施 / 土 / 家 / 族 / 苗 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / [En1 shi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hubei 商南 Shāng nán Shangnan County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 商州 Shāng zhōu Shangzhou District of Shangluo City 商 / 洛 / 市 / [Shang1 luo4 Shi4], Shaanxi 啫喱 zhě lí variant of 啫 / 哩 / [zhe3 li1] 嘉仁 Jiā rén Yoshihito, personal name of Japanese emperor Taishō / emperor (1879-1926), reigned 1912-1926 噶拉 gá lā onomat. / same as 噶 / 喇 噶霏 gá fēi old transliteration of coffee, now 咖 / 啰唆 luō suō see 囉 / 嗦 / |啰 / 嗦 / [luo1 suo5] 囊揣 nāng chuài soft, fat meat of pig's belly / sow's sagging teats / weakling / flabby person / also written 囊 / 膪
囊膪 nāng chuài soft, fat meat of pig's belly / sow's sagging teats / weakling / flabby person / also written 囊 / 揣 四 大 sì dà the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大 / 鳴 / 大 / 放 / |大 / 鸣 / 大 / 放 / [da4 ming2 圆瑛 Yuán Yīng Yuan Ying (1878-1953), Buddhist monk 地脉 dì mài geographical position according to the principles of feng shui 風 / 水 / |风 / 水 / [feng1 shui3] / ley lines 坐力 zuò lì see 後 / 坐 / 力 / |后 / 坐 / 力 / [hou4 zuo4 li4] 山 fén shān hill cemetery / ancestral grave, traditionally sited on mountain acc. to rules of fengshui 風 / 水 / |风 / 水 寿
Shòu yáng Shouyang county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4
zhong1], Shanxi 夏邑 Xià yì Xiayi county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 外媒 wài méi foreign news media / abbr. of 外 / 國 / 媒 / 體 / |外 / 国 / 媒/体 大
Dà wā Dawa county in Panjin 盤 / 錦 / |盘 / 锦 / , Liaoning
太 和 Tài hé Taihe County in Fuyang 阜 / 陽 / |阜 /
/ [Fu4 yang2],
Anhui / Taihe district of Jinzhou city 錦 / 州 / 市 / |锦 / 州 / 市 / , Liaoning 太谷 Tài gǔ Taigu county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 奈秒 nài miǎo nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (Taiwan) / PRC equivalent: 納 / 秒 / |纳 / 秒 / [na4 miao3] 奕 䜣 Yì xīn Grand Prince Yixin (1833-1898), sixth son of Emperor Daoguang, prominent politician, diplomat and modernizer in late Qing
孤拔 Gū bá Amé / dé / e Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War 孙诛 Sūn Zhū Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three hundred Tang dynasty poems 唐 / 詩 / 三 / 百 / 首 / |唐 / 诗 / 三 / 百 / 首 / [Tang2 shi1 san1 bai3 shou3] / also known by assumed name / 塘 / 退 / 士 / [Heng2 ta 宋慈 Sòng Cí Song Ci (1186-1249), Southern Song lawyer, editor of
Record of Washed Grievances 洗 / 冤 / 集 / 錄 / |洗 / 冤 / 集 / 录 / (1247), said to be the world's first legal forensic text 完县 Wán xiàn Wan former county, now Shunping county 順 / 平 / 縣 / |顺 / 平 / 县 / [Shun4 ping2 xian4] in Baoding 保 / 定 / [Bao3 ding4], Hebei 官渡 Guān dù Guandu district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 / [Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 宜良 Yí liáng Yiliang county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 陵 Níng líng Ningling county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 审干 shěn gàn to examine the cadres / same as 審 / 查 / 幹 / 部 / |审 / 查/干/部 山
Shān yáng Shanyang District of Jiaozuo City 焦 / 作 / 市 / [Jiao1
zuo4 Shi4], Henan / Shanyang County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 嵩明 Sōng míng Songming county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 巖層 yán céng variant of 岩 / 層 / |岩 / 层 / rock strata
左权 Zuǒ quán Zuoquan county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 巴 楚 Bā chǔ Maralbeshi nahiyisi (Maralbexi county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 平坝 Píng bà Pingba county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 平遥 Píng yáo Pingyao county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 德川 Dé chuān Tokugawa, the ruling clan of Japan from 1550-1850 徼幸 jiǎo xìng variant of 僥 / 倖 / |侥 / 幸 / [jiao3 xing4] 手式 shǒu shì gesture / same as 手 / 勢 / |手 / 势 / [shou3 shi4] 扬 雄 Yáng Xióng Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方 / 言 / [Fang1 yan2] 搬指 bān zhǐ jadeite thumb ring / same as
/指/兒/|
/指/儿/
[ban1 zhi3 r5] 摺 線 zhé xiàn variant of 折 / 線 / |折 / 线 / , broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments) / polygonal line / dog leg
收方 shōu fāng receiving party / recipient / debit side (of balance sheet), as opposed to credit side 付 / 方 / [fu4 fang1] 文 康 Wén Kāng Wen Kang (mid-19th century), Manchu-born novelist, author of The Gallant Maid 兒 / 女 / 英 / 雄 / 傳 / |儿 / 女 / 英 / 雄 / 传 / [Er2 nu:3 Ying1 xiong2 Zhuan4] 昔
Xī yáng Xiyang county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4
zhong1], Shanxi 晋
Jìn níng Jinning county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2],
Yunnan 普定 Pǔ dìng Puding county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 普 氏 Pǔ shì Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普 / 爾 / 熱 / 瓦 / 爾 / 斯 / 基 / |普 / 尔 / 热 / 瓦 / 尔 / 斯 / 基 / (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870 曲綫 qū xiàn variant of 曲 / 線 / |曲 / 线 / , curve / curved line 書籖 shū qiān variant of 書 / 籤 / |书 / 签 / [shu1 qian1] / bookmark 曾朴 Zēng Pǔ Zheng Pu (1872-1935), novelist and publisher 望花 Wàng huā Wanghua district of Fushun city 撫 / 順 / 市 / |抚 / 顺 /
市 / , Liaoning 朝 歌 Zhāo gē Zhaoge, capital of the Shang dynasty 商 / 朝 / Zhaoge town in Qi county 淇 / 縣 / |淇 / 县 / , Hebi 鶴 / 壁 / |鹤 / 壁 / , Henan 本罪 běn zuì actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原 /罪/) 本茨 Běn cí Benz (name) / Karl Benz (1844-1929), motor car pioneer
朱 温 Zhū Wēn Zhu Wen (852-912), military governor 節 / 度 / 使 / |节 / 度 / 使 / [jie2 du4 shi3] at the end of Tang, founder of Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923) / also called 后 / 梁 / 太 / 祖 / |後 / 梁 / 太/祖 李诵 Lǐ Sòng Li Song, personal name of eleventh Tang emperor Shunzong 順 / 宗 / |顺 / 宗 / [Shun4 zong1] (761-806), reigned 805806 东川 Dōng chuān Dongchuan district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 / [Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 东条 Dōng tiáo Tojo Hideki (1884-1948), Japanese military leader hanged as war criminal in 1948
杳眇 yǎo miǎo variant of 杳 / 渺 / [yao3 miao3] 林旭 Lín Xù Lin Xu, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊 / 戌 / 六 / 君 / 子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 林 纾 Lín Shū Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into classical Chinese 柘城 Zhè chéng Zhecheng county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 柞水 Zhà shuǐ Zhashui County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 柯西 Kē xī Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857), French mathematician 梁
Liáng yuán Liangyuan district of Shangqiu city 商 / 丘 / 市 /
[Shang1 qiu1 shi4], Henan 梅氏 Méi shì Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies 杨锐 Yáng Ruì Yang Rui, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊 / 戌 / 六 / 君 / 子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 次 Yú cì Yuci district of Jinzhong city 晉 / 中 / 市 / |晋 / 中 / 市 / [Jin4
zhong1 shi4], Shanxi 社 Yú shè Yushe county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 樱 岛 Yīng Dǎo Sakurajima island, an active volcano in Kagoshima prefecture 鹿 / 兒 / 島 / 縣 / |鹿 / 儿 / 岛 / 县 / [Lu4 er2 dao3 xian4], Japan 钦奈 Qīn nài Chennai, capital of southeast Indian state Tamil Nadu 泰 / 米 / 爾 / 納 / 德 / |泰 / 米 / 尔 / 纳 / 德 / [Tai4 mi3 er3 Na4 de2 bang1] / formerly called Madras 馬 / 德 / 拉 / 斯 / |马 / 德 / 拉 / 斯 / [ 正祖 Zhèng zǔ Jeonjo (1752-1800), 22nd king of Korean Joseon dynasty 毒
dú nǎi poisoned milk / contaminated milk / refers to 2008 PRC
scandal involving milk products adulterated with melamine 三 / 聚 / 氰 /
/ [san1 ju4 qing2 an4]
比才 Bì cái Bizet (name) / Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French musician, composer of opera Carmen 水 僊 shuǐ xiān variant of 水 / 仙 / , narcissus / daffodil / legendary aquatic immortal / refers to those buried at sea / person who wanders abroad and does not return
永嘉 Yǒng jiā Yongjia county in Wenzhou 溫 / 州 / |温 / 州 / [Wen1 zhou1], Zhejiang / reign name 307-313 of Jin Emperor Huai 晋 / 怀 / 帝 永城 Yǒng chéng Yongcheng county level city in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 沁水 Qìn shuǐ Qinshui county in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi 沈
Shěn Fù Shen Fu (1763-c. 1810), Qing dynasty writer, author of
Six records of a floating life 浮 / 生 / 六 / 記 / |浮 / 生 / 六 / 记 / [fu2 sheng1 liu4 ji4] 泊松 Bó sōng S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician 洛南 Luò nán Luonan County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 津浪 jīn làng tsunami / same as 海 / 嘯 / |海 / 啸 洪 熙 Hóng Xī Hongxi Emperor, reign name of fourth Ming emperor Zhu Gaochi 朱 / 高 / 熾 / |朱 / 高 / 炽 / [Zhu1 Gao1 chi4] (1378-1425), reigned (1424-1425), Temple name 明 / 仁 / 宗 / [Ming2 Ren2 zong1]
清原 Qīng yuán Qingyuan county in Fushun 撫 / 順 / |抚 / 顺 / , Liaoning 湘勇 Xiāng yǒng Hunan army, irregular force formed in 1850s to fight the Taiping heavenly kingdom rebellion 泽州 Zé zhōu Zezhou county in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi 泽 普 Zé pǔ Poskam nahiyisi (Poskam county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 爆花 bào huā see 爆 / 玉 / 米 / 花 / [bao4 yu4 mi3 hua1] 玄圃 Xuán pǔ mythical fairyland on Kunlun Mountain 崑 / 崙 / |昆 / 仑 / [Kun1 lun2] 甲流 jiǎ liú type A influenza / abbr. for 甲 / 形 / H1N1流 / 感 / refers to H1N1 influenza of 2009 申曲 shēn qǔ Shanghai opera / same as 滬 / 劇 / |沪 / 剧 疏 勒 Shū lè Shule ancient name for modern Kashgar / Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 疏附 Shū fù Shufu county in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 /
什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 疯瘫 fēng tān paralysis / also 癱 /
/ |瘫 / 痪 / [tan1 huan4]
盘龙 Pán lóng Panlong district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 / [Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 卢 因 Lú yīn Lewin (name) / Kurt Lewing (1890-1944), German American psychologist of the Gestalt school, the author of Field Theory 眇小 miǎo xiǎo variant of 渺 / 小 / [miao3 xiao3] 睢县 Suī xiàn Sui county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 睢
Suī yáng Suiyang district of Shangqiu city 商 / 丘 / 市 / [Shang1
qiu1 shi4], Henan 磴口 Dèng kǒu Dengkou county in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 祁奚 Qí Xī Qi Xi (c. 620-550 BC), minister of Jin state 晉 / 國 / |晋 / 国 / [Jin4 guo2] of the Spring and Autumn states 祁县 Qí xiàn Qixian county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 祖系 zǔ xì ancestry / lineage / pedigree / also written 祖 / 係 / |祖 / 系
神僊 shén xiān variant of 神 / 仙 / [shen2 xian1] 福 煦 Fú xù Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One 穆通 Mù tōng Mouton (name) / Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the metric system 粘米 nián mǐ sticky rice / short-grain rice / Oryza sativa var. japonica / also written 黏 / 米 纪 昀 Jì Yún Ji Yun (1724-1805), Qing Dynasty writer, author of supernatural novel Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut 閱 / 微 / 草 / 堂 / 筆 / 記 / |阅 / 微 / 草 / 堂 / 笔 / 记 纳秒 nà miǎo nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (PRC) / Taiwan equivalent: 奈 / 秒 / [nai4 miao3] 紫云 Zǐ yún Ziyun Hmong and Buyei autonomous county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 结喉 jié hóu Adam's Apple / laryngeal prominence / variant of 喉 / 結 / |喉 / 结 绦纶 dí lún variant of 滌 / 綸 / |涤 / 纶 / [di2 lun2]
累 坠 léi zhuì superfluous / cumbersome / a burden on sb / a nuisance to sb / to inconvenience / to tie sb down / long-winded (of writing) / also written 纍 / 贅 / |累 / 赘 / also pr. [lei2 zhui5] 羅喉 luó hóu variant of 羅 /
/ |罗 / 喉 / [luo2 hou2]
义县 Yì xiàn Yi county in Jinzhou 錦 / 州 / |锦 / 州 / , Liaoning 联缀 lián zhuì to put together / linking / successive / a cluster / same as 連 / 綴 / |连 / 缀 肖邦 Xiào bāng Frederic Chopin or Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer 胡佛 Hú fó Hoover (name) / Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US mining engineer and Republican politician, president (1929-1933) 胡铨 hú quán Hu Quan (1102-1180, Song Dynasty official and poet) 自罪 zì zuì actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原 / 罪 / ) / conscious sin 舒曼 Shū màn Schumann (name) / Robert Schumann (1810-1856), romantic composer 范晔 Fàn Yè historian from Song of the Southern Dynasties 南 / 朝 / 宋 / , author of History of Eastern Han 後 / 漢 / 書 / |后 / 汉 / 书
莎 车 Shā chē Yeken nahiyisi (Yarkand county or Shache) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 叶问 Yè Wèn Yip Man (1893-1972), martial arts practitioner, master of Bruce Lee 叶 城 Yè chéng Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 蒙日 Méng rì Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), French mathematician 葱
Cōng lǐng old name for the Pamir high plateau 帕 / 米 / 爾 / 高 /
原 / |帕 / 米 / 尔 / 高 / 原 / [Pa4 mi3 er3 Gao1 yuan2] on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan 藐小 miǎo xiǎo variant of 渺 / 小 / [miao3 xiao3] 虞城 Yú chéng Yucheng county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 西秀 Xī xiù Xixiu district of Anshun city 安 / 順 / 市 / |安 / 顺 / 市 / [An1 shun4 shi4], Guizhou 西辽 Xī Liáo Western Liao, Khitan kingdom of central Asia 1132-1218
计 都 jì dū concept from Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit Ketu), the opposite point to 羅 /
/ |罗 / 喉 / [luo2 hou2] / imaginary star
presaging disaster 诺特 Nuò tè Noether (name) / Emmy Noether (1882-1935), famous German female algebraist / Noetherian (math.) 豐採 fēng cǎi variant of 豐 / 采 / |丰 / 采 / or 風 / 采 / |风 / 采 / , svelte / elegant manner / graceful bearing 贯 气 guàn qì beneficial influence, esp. from one's ancestral graves 墳/山/|
/ 山 / in fengshui 風 / 水 / |风 / 水 / to confer beneficial
influence 越飞 Yuè fēi Adolph Abramovich Joffe (1883-1927), Soviet and Comintern diplomat and spy in 1922-23 in Republican China 赵 翼 Zhào Yì Zhao Yi (1727-1814), Qing dynasty poet and historian, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾 / 嘉 / 三 / 大 / 家 载漪 Zài yī Zai Yi (1856-1922), Manchu imperial prince and politician, disgraced after supporting the Boxers 邈远 miǎo yuǎn see 渺 / 遠 / |渺 / 远 / [miao3 yuan3] 铭谢 míng xiè to express gratitude (esp. in public) / vote of thanks /
also written 鳴 / 謝 / |鸣 / 谢 镇安 Zhèn ān Zhen'an County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 铁 托 Tiě tuō Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), Yugoslav military and communist political leader, President of Yugoslavia 1945-1980 长葛 Cháng gě Changge county level city in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 關系 guān xì variant of 關 / 係 / |
/ 系 / [guan1 xi4]
陈 忱 Chén Chén Chen Chen (1613-1670), novelist and poet at the Ming-Qing transition, author of Water Margin sequel 水 / 滸 / 後 / 傳 / |水 / 浒 / 后 / 传 陵川 Líng chuān Lingcuan county in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi 陶潜 Táo Qián Tao Qian or Tao Yuanming 陶 / 渊 / 明 / |陶 / 淵 / 明 / (c. 365-427), Jin dynasty writer and poet 城 Yáng chéng Yangcheng county in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi 石 Líng shí Lingshi county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
韦利 Wéi lì Waley or Whaley (name) / Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist 顺城 Shùn chéng Shuncheng district of Fushun city 撫 / 順 / 市 / |抚 / 顺 / 市 / , Liaoning 風採 fēng cǎi variant of 風 / 采 / |风 / 采 / , svelte / elegant manner / graceful bearing 风瘫 fēng tān paralysis / see also 癱 / 鱼
yú xùn variant of 漁 /
/ |渔 /
/ |瘫 / 痪 / [tan1 huan4] / [yu2 xun4]
鲍耶 Bào yē Já / nos Bolyai (1802-1860), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry 鳞翅 lín chì scaly wing / Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶 / 類 / |蝶 / 类 / and moths 蛾 / 類 / |蛾 / 类 / ) 鸿章 Hóng zhāng Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat 鹍弦 kūn xián pipa strings, made from sinews of large crane or swan 鵾 / 雞 / |鹍 / 鸡 / [kun1 ji1] 麦霸 mài bà mic hog / person who monopolizes the mike at karaoke party (hegemon 霸 / of the microphone 麥 / 克 / 風 / |麦 / 克 / 风 / )
麻疯 má fēng leprosy / also written 麻 / 風 / |麻 / 风 黄巾 huáng jīn refers to the Yellow Turbans peasant uprising at the end of later Han (from 184) 黏米 nián mǐ sticky rice / short-grain rice / Oryza sativa var. japonica / also written 粘 / 米 黏贴 nián tiē to glue to / to paste onto / to stick on / also written 粘 / 貼 / |粘 / 贴 庞 德 Páng Dé Pang De (-219), general of Cao Wei at the start of the Three Kingdoms period, victor over Guan Yu 關 / 羽 / |
/ 羽 / Pound
(name) / Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet and translator Ｋ书 K shū to cram (Taiwan, from Taiwanese khè / su 齧 / 書 / , lit. to gnaw a book) / to study / see also 啃 / 書 / |啃 / 书 / [ken3 shu1] 周璇 Zhōu Xuán Zhou Xuan (1918-1957), Chinese singer and film actress 阮元 Ruǎn Yuán scholar-official in the Qing dynasty (1764-1849) 糠秕 kāng bǐ same as 秕 / 糠 / [bi3 kang1] 妈的 mā de see 他 / 媽 / 的 / |他 / 妈 / 的 / [ta1 ma1 de5] 偻㑩 lóu luo see
/ 囉 / |喽 / 啰 / [lou2 luo5]
啰苏 luō sū see 囉 / 嗦 / |啰 / 嗦 / [luo1 suo5] 摺 线 zhé xiàn variant of 折 / 線 / |折 / 线 / [zhe2 xian4], broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments) / polygonal line / dog leg 浮漂 fú piāo see 漂 / 浮 / [piao1 fu2] 诺奖 Nuò jiǎng Nobel prize / abbr. for 諾 / 貝 / 爾 / 獎 / |诺 / 贝 / 尔 / 奖 / [Nuo4 bei4 er3 jiang3] 飘缈 piāo miǎo variant of 飄 / 渺 / |飘 / 渺 / [piao1 miao3] 八风 bā fēng see 八 / 風 / 穴 / |八 / 风 / 穴 / [ba1 feng1 xue2] 噜苏 lū sū see 囉 / 嗦 / |啰 / 嗦 / [luo1 suo5] 塑膜 sù mó plastic film (abbr. for 塑 / 料 / 薄 / 膜 / [su4 liao4 bo2 mo2]) 外劳 wài láo abbr. for 外 / 籍 / 勞 / 工 / |外 / 籍 / 劳 / 工 / [wai4 ji2 lao2 gong1] / foreign worker 昆腔 Kūn qiāng see 崑 / 曲 / |昆 / 曲 / [Kun1 qu3] 飘洋 piāo yáng see 漂 / 洋 / [piao1 yang2] 毛泽东 Máo Zé dōng Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader
马 克思 Mǎ kè sī Marx (name) / Groucho Marx (the star of Duck Soup, 1933) / Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism 共青团 Gòng qīng tuán the Communist Youth League, abbr. for 共 / 產 / 主 / 義 / 青 / 年 / 團 / |共 / 产 / 主 / 义 / 青 / 年 / 团 / [Gong4 chan3 zhu3 yi4 Qing1 nian2 tuan2] 毛主席 Máo Zhǔ xí Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛 / 澤 / 東 / |毛 / 泽 / 东 / (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader 诸 葛亮 Zhū gě Liàng Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀 / 漢 / |蜀 / 汉 / during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三 / 國 / 演 / 義 / |三 / 国 / 演 / 三国志 Sān guó zhì History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二 / 十 / 四 / 史 / [Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Chen Shou 陳 / 壽 / |陈 / 寿 / [Chen2 Shou4] in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉 / 朝 / |晋 / 朝 / [Jin4 c 蒋介石 Jiǎng Jiè shí Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), former Guomindang leader
望远镜 wàng yuǎn jìng binoculars / telescope / CL:付 / [fu4],副 / [fu4],部 / [bu4] 中 科院 Zhōng kē yuàn abbr. for 中 / 國 / 社 / 會 / 科 / 學 / 院 / |中 / 国 / 社 / 会 / 科 / 学 / 院 / [Zhong1 guo2 She4 hui4 Ke1 xue2 yuan4], Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 希特勒 Xī tè lè Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) 孙中山 Sūn Zhōng shān Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國 / 民 / 黨 / |国 / 民 / 党 / same as 孫 / 逸 / 仙 / |孙 / 逸 / 仙 安眠药 ān mián yào sleeping pill / CL:粒 / [li4] 拿破仑 Ná pò lún Napoleon (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821), Emperor of France 1804-1815 周总理 Zhōu zǒng lǐ Premier Zhou Enlai 周 / 恩 / 來 / |周 / 恩 / 来 / (1898-1976) 斯大林 Sī dà lín Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator 贝多芬 Bèi duō fēn Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 富 士康 Fù shì kāng Foxconn Technology Group / abbr. of 富 / 士 / 康 / 科 / 技 / 集 / 團 / |富 / 士 / 康 / 科 / 技 / 集 / 团 / [Fu4 shi4 kang1 ke1
ji4 ji2 tuan2] 方法论 fāng fǎ lùn methodology / Discours de la mé / thode by René / Descartes 笛 / 卡 / 兒 / |笛 / 卡 / 儿 / , 1637 录音带 lù yīn dài audio tape / CL:盤 / |盘 / [pan2],盒 / [he2] 统 战部 Tǒng Zhàn bù United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee (UFWD) / abbr. for 統 / 一 / 戰 / 線 / 工 / 作 / 部 / |统 / 一 / 战 / 线 / 工 / 作 / 部 / [Tong3 yi1 Zhan4 xian4 Gong1 zuo4 bu4] 罗斯福 Luó sī fú Roosevelt (name) / Theodore Roosevelt (18581919), US President 1901-1909 / Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945 曾国藩 Zēng Guó fān Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), Qing dynasty politician and military man 爱迪生 Aì dí shēng Edison (name) / Thomas Alva Edison (18471931), American inventor and businessman 恩格斯 En1 gé sī Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), socialist philosopher and one of the founder of Marxism 曹 雪芹 Cáo Xuě qín Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of Dream of Red Mansions 紅 / 樓 / 夢 / |红 / 楼 / 梦 / [Hong2 lou2
Meng4] 刘少奇 Liú Shào qí Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution 达 尔文 Dá ěr wén Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist and author of "On the Origin of Species" 物 / 種 / 起 / 源 / |物 /
/起/源/
[wu3 zhong3 qi3 yuan2] / Darwin, capital of Australian Northern Territory 北 / 領 / 地 / | 李鸿章 Lǐ Hóng zhāng Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat 袁 世凯 Yuán Shì kǎi Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China 彭德怀 Péng Dé huái Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution 黑格尔 Hēi gé ěr Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher 马 歇尔 Mǎ xiē ěr Marshall (name) / George Catlett Marshall (18801959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author
of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate 滑铁卢 Huá tiě lú Waterloo (Flanders) / 1815 battle of Waterloo / fig. a defeat / setback 宋 庆龄 Sòng Qìng líng Song Qingling or Rosemonde Soong (18931981), wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫 / 中 / 山 / |孙 / 中 / 山 / [Sun1 Zhong1 shan1] 梁启超 Liáng Qǐ chāo Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898 拉拉队 lā lā duì support team / cheering squad / cheerleader / also written 多尔
/
/隊/|
/
/队
Duō ěr gǔn 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 / & 霍夫曼 Huò fū màn Hofmann or Hoffman (name) / August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist / Dustin Hoffman (1937), US film actor 胡志明 Hú Zhì míng Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader. See also 胡 / 志 / 明 / 市 / [Hu2 Zhi4 ming2 shi4]
卡夫卡 Kǎ fū kǎ Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer 齐白石 Qí Bái shí Qi Baishi (1864-1957), famous Chinese painter 陈 独秀 Chén Dú xiù Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), Chinese Marxist and leading communist, blamed for the failures of Chinese communism from 1927, posthumously rehabilitated 林则徐 Lín Zé xú Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (17851850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842 朱自清 Zhū Zì qīng Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948), poet and essayist 宋美龄 Sòng Měi líng Soong Mei-ling or Song Meiling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's wife (subsequently widow) 泰戈尔 Tài gē ěr Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer 高尔基 Gāo ěr jī Gorkii (name) / Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist 凯恩斯 Kǎi ēn sī Keynes (name) / John Maynard Keynes (18831946), influential British economist 康 有为 Kāng Yǒu wéi Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed
reform movement of 1898 大运河 Dà Yùn hé the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC 汪精卫 Wāng Jīng wèi Wang Ching-wei (1883-1944), left wing Guomingdang politician, subsequently Japanese collaborator 白 求恩 Bái Qiú ēn Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning 红通通 hóng tōng tōng bright red / also written 紅 / 彤 / 彤 / |红 / 彤 / 彤 王国维 Wáng Guó wéi Wang Guowei (1877-1927), noted scholar 蔡 元培 Cài Yuán péi Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), liberal educationalist, studied in Germany, President of Beijing University 1917-19, minister of education for Guomindang 李时珍 Lǐ Shí zhēn Li Shizhen (1518-1593), Ming botanist and pharmacologist, author of Compendium of Medical Herbs 本 / 草 / 綱 / 目 / |本 / 草 / 纲 / 目 / [Ben3 cao3 Gang1 mu4] 戴高乐 Dài Gāo lè Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and
President of the Republic 1959-1969 李斯特 Lǐ sī tè Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer / Joseph Lister (1883-1897), British surgeon and bacteriologist 李大钊 Lǐ Dà zhāo Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party 普希金 Pǔ xī jīn Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), great Russian romantic poet 冯玉祥 Féng Yù xiáng Feng Yuxiang (1882-1948), warlord during Republic of China, strongly critical of Chiang Kai-shek 洪秀全 Hóng Xiù quán Hong Xiuquan or Hung Hsiu-ch'ü / an (18121864), leader of the Taiping rebellion or Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 资本论 Zī běn lùn Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡 / 爾 / ・ / 馬 / 克 / 思 / |卡 / 尔 / ・ / 马 / 克 / 思 / [Ka3 er3 · / Ma3 ke4 si1] 张作霖 Zhāng Zuò lín Zhang Zuolin (c. 1873-1928), warlord of Manchuria 1916-1928 李宗仁 Lǐ Zōng rén Li Zongren (1891-1969), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction 周 作人 Zhōu Zuò rén Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯
/ 迅 / |鲁 / 迅 / , academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution 卡内基 Kǎ nèi jī Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist 的士高 dí shì gāo disco (loanword) / also written 迪 / 斯 / 科 / [di2 si1 ke1] 闻一多 Wén Yī duō Wen Yiduo (1899-1946), poet and patriotic fighter, executed by Guomindang in Kunming 阎锡山 Yán Xī shān Yan Xishan (1883-1960), warlord in Shanxi 叶圣陶 Yè Shèng táo Ye Shengtao (1894-1988), writer and editor, known esp. for children's books 李洪志 Lǐ Hóng zhì Li Hongzhi, founder of Falung Gong 法 / 輪 / 功 / |法 / 轮 / 功 / [Fa3 lun2 Gong1] 曼德拉 Màn dé lā Nelson Mandela (1918-), South African ANC politician, president of South Africa 1994-1999 张之洞 Zhāng Zhī dòng Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing 狄更斯 Dí gēng sī Dickens (name) / Charles Dickens (1812-1870),
great English novelist 张国焘 Zhāng Guó tāo Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938 詹天佑 Zhān Tiān yòu Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919), Chinese railroad engineer 青年会 Qīng nián huì YMCA (international Christian youth movement, formed in 1844) 谭 嗣同 Tán Sì tóng 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 第四纪 dì sì jì fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years) 宪兵队 xiàn bīng duì the Kempeitai or Japanese Military Police 18811945 (Japanese counterpart of the Gestapo during WWII) 叔本华 Shū běn huá Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher 瞿 秋白 Qū Qiū bái Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and
Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March 契诃夫 Qì hē fū Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays 段祺瑞 Duàn Qí ruì Duan Qirui (1864-1936), commander of Beiyang Army under Yuan Shikai, then politician and powerful warlord 董必武 Dǒng Bì wǔ Dong Biwu (1886-1975), one of the founders of the Chinese communist party 尼米兹 Ní mǐ zī Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966), US admiral 邱吉尔 Qiū jí ěr Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill 旧 唐书 Jiù Táng shū History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二 / 十 / 四 / 史 / [Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Liu Xu 劉 /
/ |刘 /
/ [Liu2 Xu4] in 945 during
Later Jin 後 / 晉 / |后 / 晋 / [Hou4 汉文帝 Hàn wén dì fourth Han emperor Han Wendi (202-157 BC), personal name Liu Heng 劉 / 恆 / |刘 / 恒 / reigned 180-157 BC 傅作义 Fù Zuò yì Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), Guomindang general, subsequently PRC top general and politician
外耳道 wài ěr dào external auditory meatus / auditory canal, between the outer ear 外 / 耳 / and tympanum 鼓 / 膜 杜月笙 Dù Yuè shēng Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secretsociety leader, banker, industrialist 白 崇禧 Bái Chóng xǐ Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949 大仲马 Dà Zhòng mǎ Alexandre Dumas, pè / re (1802-1870), French writer 黄宾虹 Huáng Bīn hóng Huang Binhong (1865-1955), art historian and literati painter 羊角疯 yáng jiǎo fēng variant of 羊 / 角 / 風 / |羊 / 角 / 风 / [yang2 jiao3 feng1] 法 拉第 Fǎ lā dì Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity 杨虎城 Yáng Hǔ chéng Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general 何应钦 Hé Yìng qīn He Yingqin (1890-1987), senior Guomindang
general 汉 献帝 Hàn Xiàn dì 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 梁漱溟 Liáng Shù míng Liang Shuming (1893-1988), modern philosopher and teacher in the neo-Confucian tradition 德彪西 Dé biāo xī Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French composer 托尔金 Tuō ěr jīn J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔 / 戒 爬虫类 pá chóng lèi reptiles / also written 爬 / 行 / 類 / |爬 / 行 / 类 柳橙汁 liǔ chéng zhī orange juice / CL:瓶 / [ping2],杯 / [bei1],罐 / [guan4],盒 / [he2] / see also 橙 / 汁 / [cheng2 zhi1] 李四光 Lǐ Sì guāng Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration 赤小豆 chì xiǎo dòu see 紅 / 豆 / |红 / 豆 / [hong2 dou4] 巴斯德 Bā sī dé Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist 傅立叶 Fù lì yè Francois-Maire Charles Fourier (French sociologist
and socialist, 1772-1837) 普朗克 Pǔ lǎng kè Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist 福克纳 Fú kè nà William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and poet 串
子 chuàn mén zi see 串 / 門 / |串 /
/ [chuan4 men2]
奥康纳 Aò kāng nà O'Connor (name) / Thomas Power O'Connor (1848-1929), Irish journalist and nationalist political leader 克莱因 Kè lái yīn Klein or Kline (name) / Felix Klein (1849-1925), German mathematician 竺可桢 Zhú Kě zhēn Zhu Kezhen (1890-1974), Chinese metereologist and geologist 冼 星海 Xiǎn Xīng hǎi Xian Xinghai (1905-1945), violinist and composer, known for patriotic wartime pieces, including Yellow River Oratorio 黃 / 河 / 大 / 合 / 唱 / |黄 / 河 / 大 / 合 / 唱 易卜生 Yì bǔ shēng Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩 / 偶 / 之 / 家 陈炯明 Chén Jiǒng míng Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong
血色素 xuè sè sù hematin (blood pigment) / heme / hemoglobin / also written 血 / 紅 / 蛋 / 白 / |血 / 红 / 蛋 / 白 宋 教仁 Sòng Jiào rén Song Jiaoren (1882-1913), politician of the revolutionary party involved in the 1911 Xinhai revolution, murdered in Shanghai in 1913 唐高祖 Táng Gāo zǔ Emperor Gaozu of Tang, reign name of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 李 / 淵 / |李 / 渊 / [Li3 Yuan1] (566-635), reigned 618-626 常胜军 cháng shèng jūn Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels 司马炎 Sī mǎ Yán Sima Yan (236-290), founding emperor of Jin dynasty 晋 / after the Three Kingdoms period, reigned 265-290 as Emperor Wu of Jin 晉 / 武 / 帝 徐世昌 Xú Shì chāng Xu Shichang (1855-1939), politician associated with the Northern Warlords, president of China in 1921 道尔顿 Dào ěr dùn Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory 赫 胥黎 Hè xū lí Huxley (name) / Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895),
British evolutionary scientist and champion of Darwin / Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist 纳赛尔 Nà sài ěr Nasr or Nasser (Arab name) / Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), Egyptian President 邓 世昌 Dèng Shì chāng Deng Shichang (1849-1894), Qing dynasty naval specialist, founded naval dockyards and two naval colleges, died heroically in action against the Japanese 多角形 duō jiǎo xíng polygon / same as 多 / 邊 / 形 / |多 / 边 / 形 救世军 jiù shì jūn Salvation Army (protestant philanthropic organization founded in London in 1865) 古 生代 Gǔ shēng dài Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒 / 武 / 紀 / |寒 / 武 / 纪 / , Ordovician 奧 / 陶 / 紀 / |奥 / 陶 / 纪 / , Silurian 志 / 留 / 紀 / |志 / 留 / 纪 / , Devonian 泥 / & 孙传芳 Sūn Chuán fāng Sun Chuanfang (1885-1935) one of the northern warlord, murdered in Tianjin in 1935 独 龙江 Dú lóng jiāng Dulong river in northwest Yunnan on border with Myanmar, tributary of Salween or Nujiang 怒 / 江 / , sometimes referred to as number four of Three parallel rivers 三 / 江 / 並 / 流 / |三 / 江 / 并 / 流 / , wildlife protection
贺普丁 hè pǔ dīng Chinese brand name of Lamivudine 拉 / 米 / 夫 / 定 / [La1 mi3 fu1 ding4] 安 德海 An1 Dé hǎi An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈 / 禧 / 太 / 后 / [Ci2 xi3 Tai4 hou4], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈 / 安 / 皇 / 法论功 fǎ lún gōng erroneous variant of 法 / 輪 / 功 / |法 / 轮 / 功 / [Fa3 lun2 gong1], Falungong (proscribed Chinese spiritual practice) 地动仪 dì dòng yí the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 张 / 衡 / in 132 / abbr. for 候 / 風 / 地 / 動 / 儀 / |候 / 风 / 地 / 动 / 仪 中会 Xīng zhōng huì Revive China Society, founded by Dr Sun Yatsen 孫 / 中 / 山 / |孙 / 中 / 山 / in 1894 in Honolulu 年头儿 nián tóu r erhua variant of 年 / 頭 / |年 / 头 / [nian2 tou2] 陈天华 Chén Tiān huà Chen Tianhua (1875-1905), anti-Qing revolutionary from Hunan, drowned himself in Japan in 1905 肖伯纳 Xiào Bó nà Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
毒
粉 dú nǎi fěn poisoned milk powder / refers to 2008 PRC
scandal involving milk powder adulterated with melamine 三 / 聚 / 氰 / / [san1 ju4 qing2 an4] 许地山 Xǔ Dì shān Xu Dishan (1893-1941), journalist, publisher and novelist 横膈膜 héng gé mó diaphragm / also written 橫 / 隔 / 膜 / |横 / 隔 / 膜 / [heng2 ge2 mo2] 阿贝尔 A1 bèi ěr Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician / (math.) abelian 布莱尔 Bù lái ěr Blair (name) / Braille (name) / Louis Braille (18091852), the inventor of the Braille alphabet for the blind 傅里叶 Fù lǐ yè Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (French mathematician, 1768-1830) 桔子水 jú zi shuǐ orange juice / CL:瓶 / [ping2],杯 / [bei1],罐 / [guan4],盒 / [he2] 卷层云 juǎn céng yún cirrostratus (cloud) / also written 卷 / 層 / 雲 / |卷 / 层 / 云 / [juan3 ceng2 yun2] 梅兰芳 Méi Lán fāng Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), famous master of
Beijing opera, specialist in female roles 尼赫鲁 Ní hè lǔ Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964 山西省 Shān xī shěng Shanxi province (Shansi) in north China between Hebei and Shaanxi, abbr. 晋 / capital Taiyuan 太 / 原 上海市 Shàng hǎi shì Shanghai municipality in southeast China, abbr. 滬 / |沪 孙 逸仙 Sūn Yì xiān Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Kuomintang / same as 孫 / 中 / 山 / |孙 / 中 / 山 希沃特 Xī wò tè Sievert (Sv), unit of radiation damage used in radiotherapy / Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896-1966), Swedish physicist
徐悲鸿 Xú Bēi hóng Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European trained painter and influential art teacher 云 南省 Yún nán Shěng Yunnan Province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇 / [Dian1] or 雲 / |云 / [Yun2], capital Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2]
周恩来 Zhōu En1 lái Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976 安徒生 An1 tú shēng Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) 俾 斯麦 Bǐ sī mài Bismarck (name) / Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, Minister-President of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890 波拿巴 Bō ná bā Bonaparte (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821), Emperor of France 1804-1815 柏辽兹 Bó liáo zī Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique 重庆市 Chóng qìng shì Chongqing city, formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, short name 渝 / [Yu2] 但尼生 Dàn ní shēng Tennyson (name) / Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet 房玄龄 Fáng Xuán líng Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晉 / 書 / |晋 / 书 郭沫若 Guō Mò ruò Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik 合 体字 hé tǐ zì a Chinese character formed by combining existing
elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會 / 意 / |会 / 意 / or radical plus phonetic 形 / 聲 / |形 / 声 黄飞鸿 Huáng Fēi hóng Wong Fei Hung (1847-1924), famous martial artist and revolutionary 黄 鹤楼 Huáng hè Lóu 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 / [Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will ne 基对 jiǎn jī duì base pair (bp) consisting of two complementary nucleotides (adenine A 腺 / 嘌 / 呤 / paired with thymine T 胸 / 腺 / 嘧 / 啶 / in DNA) 临河区 Lín hé qū Linhe district of Bayan Nur city 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / 市 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / 市 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3 shi4], Inner Mongolia 普鲁东 Pǔ lǔ dōng Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French socialist philosopher 隋 炀帝 Suí Yáng dì Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618
唐绍仪 Táng Shào yí Tang Shaoyi (1862-1939), politician and diplomat 特斯拉 Tè sī lā Tesla (unit) / Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian inventor and engineer 徐志摩 Xú Zhì mó Xu Zhimo (1897-1931), writer and poet 郁达夫 Yù Dá fū Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist 圆明
Yuán míng yuán Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace,
destroyed by the British and French army in 1860 张大千 Zhāng Dà qiān Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (18991983), one of the greatest Chinese artists of the 20th century 丁汝昌 Dīng Rǔ chāng Ding Ruchang (1836-1895), commander of the Qing North China Navy 丁 韪良 Dīng Wěi liáng William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Beijing university 七河州 Qī hé zhōu Semirechye region of Kazakhstan, bordering Lake Balkash 巴 / 爾 / 喀 / 什 / 湖 / |巴 / 尔 / 喀 / 什 / 湖 / [Ba1 er3 ka1 shi2 Hu2]
丘逢甲 Qiū Féng jiǎ Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet 串
儿 chuàn mén r erhua variant of 串 / 門 / |串 /
/ [chuan4 men2]
丹凤县 Dān fèng Xiàn Danfeng County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 五原县 Wǔ yuán xiàn Wuyuan county in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 五华区 Wǔ huá qū Wuhua district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 / [Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 亚 罗号 Yà luó hào the Arrow (a Hong Kong registered ship involved in historical incident in 1856 used as pretext for the second Opium War) 介 之推 Jiè Zhī tuī Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉 / 文 / 公 / |晋 / 文 / 公 / , in whose honor the Qingming festival 清 / 明 / (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated 介休市 Jiè xiū shì Jiexiu county level city in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
仙方儿 xiān fāng r erhua variant of 仙 / 方 / [xian1 fang1] 伊 斯曼 Yī sī màn Eastman (name) / George Eastman (1854-1932), US inventor and founder of Kodak 柯 / 達 / |柯 / 达 / [Ke1 da2] / Max F. Eastman (1883-1969), US socialist writer, subsequently severe critic of USSR 伍廷芳 Wǔ Tíng fāng Wu Tingfang (1842-1922), diplomat and lawyer
伽 师县 Jiā shī xiàn Peyzivat nahiyisi (Peyziwat county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 伽罗瓦 Jiā luó wà É / variste Galois (1811-1832), famous French mathematical prodigy and unsuccessful duelist 伽 罗华 Jiā luó huà É / variste Galois (1811-1832), famous French mathematical prodigy and unsuccessful duelist / also written 伽 / 羅 / 瓦 / |伽 / 罗 / 瓦 低速层 dī sù céng low velocity zone (seismology) / also called asthenosphere 軟 / 流 / 層 / |软 / 流 / 层 / [ruan3 liu2 ceng2] 佛 朗哥 Fó lǎng gē Franco (name) / Generalissimo Francisco Franco
Bahamonde (1892-1975), Spanish dictator and head of state 19391975 个旧市 Gè jiù shì Gejiu, county level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彞 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / |红 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彝 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 倪嗣冲 Ní Sì chōng Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁 / 世 / 凱 / |袁 / 世 / 凯 / during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire 假分数 jiǎ fēn shù improper fraction (with numerator &ge / denominator, e.g. seven fifths) / see also: proper fraction 真 / 分 / 數 / |真 / 分 / 数 / [zhen1 fen1 shu4] and mixed number 帶 / 分 / 數 / |带 / 分 / 数 / [dai4 fen1 shu4] 侧刀旁 cè dāo páng name of "knife" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18), occurring in 到 / , 利 / ,
/ etc / see also 刂 /
[dao1] 生类 liǎng shēng lèi class Amphibia / also written 兩 / 棲 / 類 / |
/
栖 / 类 / [liang3 qi1 lei4] 凌河区 Líng hé qū Linghe district of Jinzhou city 錦 / 州 / 市 / |锦 / 州 /
市 / , Liaoning 凌海市 Líng hǎi shì Linghai county level city in Jinzhou 錦 / 州 / |锦 / 州 / , Liaoning 凯林赛 kǎi lín sài keirin cycle race (paced stadium event) / translit. of Japanese け / い / り / ん / 競 / 輪 / |竞 / 轮 刘光第 Liú Guāng dì Liu Guangdi, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊 / 戌 / 六 / 君 / 子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 加劲儿 jiā jìn r erhua variant of 加 / 勁 / |加 / 劲 / [jia1 jin4] 加拉罕 Jiā lā hǎn Leo Karakhan (1889-1937), Soviet ambassador to China 1921-26, executed in Stalin's 1937 purge 加特林 Jiā tè lín Gatling (name) / Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the Gatling gun 勒威耶 Lè wēi yē Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune
北镇市 Běi zhèn shì Beizhen county level city in Jinzhou 錦 / 州 / |锦 / 州 / , Liaoning 十 天干 shí tiān gān the 10 heavenly stems 甲 / , 乙 / , 丙 / , 丁 / , 戊 /
, 己 / , 庚 / , 辛 / , 壬 / , 癸 / (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III) 古塔区 Gǔ tǎ qū Guta district of Jinzhou city 錦 / 州 / 市 / |锦 / 州 / 市 / , Liaoning 古 登堡 Gǔ dēng bǎo Gutenberg (name) / Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400-1468), inventor in Europe of the printing press / Beno Gutenberg (1889-1960), German-born US seismologist, coinventor of the Richter magnitude scale 司各特 Sī gè tè Scott (name) / Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish romantic novelist 同 文馆 Tóng wén guǎn the first modern Chinese library established in 1898 by William A.P. Martin 丁 / 韙 / 良 / |丁 / 韪 / 良 / , becoming the foundation for Beijing University library 嘉经 Wú Jiā jīng Wu Jiajing (1618-1684), early Qing dynasty poet 玉章 Wú Yù zhāng Wu Yuzhang (1878-1966), writer, educator and communist politician 趼人 Wú Jiǎn rén Wu Jianren (1867-1910), late Qing dynasty novelist, author of The strange state of the world witnessed over 20 years 二 / 十 / 年 / 目 / 睹 / 之 / 怪 / 現 / 狀 / |二 / 十 / 年 / 目 / 睹 / 之 /
怪/现/& 呆会儿 dāi huì r see 待 / 會 / 兒 / |待 / 会 / 儿 / [dai1 hui4 r5] 呈贡县 Chéng gòng xiàn Chenggong county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 周传瑛 Zhōu Chuán yīng Zhou Chuanying (1912-1988), Kunqu 昆 / 曲 / opera actor 周
鹃 Zhōu Shòu juān Zhou Shoujuan (1895-1968), writer,
translator and art collector in Suzhou, a victim of the cultural revolution 和顺县 Hé shùn xiàn Heshun county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 商南县 Shāng nán Xiàn Shangnan County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 商州区 Shāng zhōu Qū Shangzhou District of Shangluo City 商 / 洛 / 市 / [Shang1 luo4 Shi4], Shaanxi 坦 博拉 Tǎn bó lā Tambora, volcano on Indonesian island of Sumbawa 松 / 巴 / 哇 / , whose 1815 eruption is greatest in recorded history 埃尔金 Aī ěr jīn James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British
High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓 / 明 / 園 / |圆 / 明 /
/ in
1860 / Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766塔列朗 Tǎ liè lǎng Talleyrand (name) / Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pé / rigord (1754-1838), famous French diplomat who served in turn Louis XVI, the French revolution Napolé / on I and three subsequent French kings 寿
县 Shòu yáng xiàn Shouyang county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中
/ [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 夏邑县 Xià yì xiàn Xiayi county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 大
县 Dà wā xiàn Dawa county in Panjin 盤 / 錦 / |盘 / 锦 / , Liaoning
太和区 Tài hé qū Taihe district of Jinzhou city 錦 / 州 / 市 / |锦 / 州 / 市 / , Liaoning 太谷县 Tài gǔ xiàn Taigu county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 奥 威尔 Aò wēi ěr Orwell (name) / George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal farm 動 / 物 / 農 / 場 / |动 / 物 / 农 / 场 / and
1984 一 / 九 / 八 / 四 / 年 奥陶系 Aò táo xì Ordovician system (geology) / see 奧 / 陶 / 紀 / |奥 / 陶/纪 威 妥玛 Wēi Tuǒ mǎ Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system 威
顿 Wēi líng dùn Wellington (name) / Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Wellington (1769-1851) 安
市 An1 níng shì Anning county level city in Kunming 昆 / 明 /
[Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 安 重根 An1 Zhòng gēn An Jung-geun or Ahn Joong-keun (18791910), Korean independence activist, famous as assassin of Japanese prime minister ITŌ / Hirobumi 伊 / 藤 / 博 / 文 / [Yi1 teng2 Bo2 wen2] in 1909 宋四家 Sòng sì jiā four famous Song calligraphers, namely: Su Shi 蘇 / 軾 / |苏 / 轼 / [Su1 Shi4], Huang Tingjian 黃 / 庭 / 堅 / |黄 / 庭 / 坚 / [Huang2 Ting2 jian1], Mi Fu 米 / 芾 / [Mi3 Fu2] and Cai Xiang 蔡 / 襄 / [Cai4 Xiang1] 官渡区 Guān dù qū Guandu district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 /
[Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 定 远营 Dìng yuǎn yíng old name of Bayan Hot 巴 / 彥 / 浩 / 特 / |巴 / 彦 / 浩 / 特 / [Ba1 yan4 Hao4 te4], capital of Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia 宜良县 Yí liáng xiàn Yiliang county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 富民县 Fù mín xiàn Fumin county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 陵县 Níng líng xiàn Ningling county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 寻甸县 Xún diàn xiàn Xundian Hui and Yi autonomous county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 对劲儿 duì jìn r erhua variant of 對 / 勁 / |对 / 劲 / [dui4 jin4] 小刀会 xiǎo dāo huì Dagger Society, anti-Qing secret society who mounted an unsuccessful rebellion in 1855 尹 潽善 Yǐn Pǔ shàn Yun Poseon (1897-1990), South Korean Democratic party politician, mayor of Seoul from 1948, president 1960-1962 尼尔逊 Ní ěr xùn Nelson or Nillson (name) / Horatio Nelson (1758-
1805), British naval hero 山
县 Shān yáng Xiàn Shanyang County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 /
[Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 岳 普湖 Yuè pǔ hú Yopurgha nahiyisi (Yopurga county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 嵩明县 Sōng míng xiàn Songming county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 左权县 Zuǒ quán xiàn Zuoquan county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 巴 楚县 Bā chǔ xiàn Maralbeshi nahiyisi (Maralbexi county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 巴豆属 bā dòu shǔ Croton, genus of evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大 / 戟 / 科 / [da4 ji3 ke1] 巴 豆树 bā dòu shù croton bush (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大 / 戟 / 科 / [da4 ji3 ke1], with seed having strong purgative properties 布哈林 Bù hā lín Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet
revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937 帕内尔 Pà nèi ěr Parnell (name) / Charles Stewart Parnell (18461891), Irish nationalist politician 平坝县 Píng bà xiàn Pingba county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 平遥县 Píng yáo xiàn Pingyao county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 康 广仁 Kāng Guǎng rén Kang Guangren (1867-1898), younger brother of Kang Youwei 康 / 有 / 為 / |康 / 有 / 为 / [Kang1 You3 wei2] and one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊 / 戌 / 六 / 君 / 子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 康托尔 Kāng tuō ěr Cantor (name) / Georg Cantor (1845-1918), German mathematician, founder of set theory 集 / 合 / 論 / |集 / 合 / 论 / [ji2 he2 lun4] 张太雷 Zhāng Tài léi Zhang Tailei (1898-1927), founding member of Chinese communist party 彭
鸥 Péng Yǎng ōu Peng Yangou, late Qing novelist, author of
Black register of lost souls 黑 / 籍 / 冤 / 魂 后边儿 hòu bian r erhua variant of 後 / 邊 / |后 / 边 / [hou4 bian5]
后钩儿 hòu gōu r erhua variant of 後 / 鉤 / |后 / 钩 / [hou4 gou1] 徐继
Xú Jì yú Xu Jiyu (1795-1873), Chinese geographer
怪蜀黍 guài shǔ shǔ see 怪 / 叔 / 叔 / [guai4 shu1 shu5] 愛迪生 ài dí shēng Edison (name) / Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
宪章派 xiàn zhāng pài the Chartist movement (in the 1840s in England) 打把式 dǎ bǎ shi variant of 打 / 把 / 勢 / |打 / 把 / 势 / [da3 ba3 shi5] 拉法格 Lā fǎ gé Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx 拉盖尔 Lā gài ěr Laguerre (name) / Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician 采珠人 cǎi zhū rén the Pearl Fishers, 1863 opera by Georges Bizet 比 / 才 / [Bi4 cai2] 探 口气 tàn kǒu qì to sound out opinions / to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning / also written 探 / 口 / 風 / |探 / 口 / 风 / [tan4 kou3 feng1] 抚顺县 Fǔ shùn xiàn Fushun county in Fushun 撫 / 順 / |抚 / 顺 / ,
Liaoning 斯 坦因 Sī tǎn yīn Stein (name) / Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), British adventurer and archaeologist who explorer Xinjiang in early 20th century 新抚区 Xīn fǔ qū Xinfu district of Fushun city 撫 / 順 / 市 / |抚 / 顺 / 市 / , Liaoning 新宾县 Xīn bīn xiàn Xinbin county in Fushun 撫 / 順 / |抚 / 顺 / , Liaoning 明仁宗 Míng Rén zōng Ming Renzong, Temple name of fourth Ming emperor Zhu Gaochi 朱 / 高 / 熾 / |朱 / 高 / 炽 / [Zhu1 Gao1 chi4] 明熹宗 Míng Xī zōng Ming Xizong, Temple name of fifteenth Ming emperor Tianqi 明 / 天 / 啟 / |明 / 天 / 启 / [Ming2 Tian1 qi3] 昏 睡病 hūn shuì bìng sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis / see also 非 / 洲 / 錐 / 蟲 / 病 / |非 / 洲 / 锥 / 虫 / 病 / [Fei1 zhou1 zhui1 chong2 bing4] 昔
县 Xī yáng xiàn Xiyang county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4
zhong1], Shanxi 晋
县 Jìn níng xiàn Jinning county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1
ming2], Yunnan
普定县 Pǔ dìng xiàn Puding county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 智神星 Zhì shén xīng Pallas, an asteroid, discovered in 1802 by H.W. Olbers 曹靖华 Cáo Jìng huá Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Beijing University and essayist 曹余章 Cáo Yú zhāng Cao Yuzhang (1924-), modern writer and publisher, author of narrative history 上 / 下 / 五 / 千 / 年 曾孝谷 Zēng Xiào gǔ Zeng Xiaogu (1873-1937), actor and pioneer of Chinese drama in New Culture style 曾 纪泽 Zēng Jì zé Cang Jize or Tseng Chi-tse (1839-1890), pioneer diplomat of late Qing, serve as imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK, France and Russia 服他
fú tā líng voltaren, a trade name for diclofenac sodium, a non-
steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as painkiller / also called 扶 / 他 / 林 望花区 Wàng huā qū Wanghua district of Fushun city 撫 / 順 / 市 / |抚 / 顺 / 市 / , Liaoning 木栅线 Mù zhà xiàn Muzha line, also Taipei Metro Muzha Line
(TRTS, 台 / 北 / 捷 / 運 / 木 / 柵 / 線 / ) 朱 由校 Zhū Yóu xiào personal name of fifteenth Ming emperor Tianqi 明 / 天 / 啟 / |明 / 天 / 启 / [Ming2 Tian1 qi3] (1605-1627), reigned 1620-1627 朱祁 镇 Zhū Qí zhèn Zhu Qizhen, personal name of sixth and eighth Ming emperor Zhengtong 正 / 統 / |正 / 统 / [Zheng4 Tong3], afterwards Tianshun Emperor 天 / 順 / |天 / 顺 / [Tian1 shun4] (14271464), reigned 1435-1449 and 1457-1464 李伯元 Lǐ Bó yuán Li Boyuan or Li Baojia 李 / 寶 / 嘉 / |李 / 宝 / 嘉 / (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官 / 場 / 現 / 形 / 記 / |官 / 场 / & 李劼人 Lǐ Jié rén Li Jieren (1891-1962), novelist 李 叔同 Lǐ Shū tóng Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Movement after the Xinhai Revolution 辛 / 亥 / 革 / 命 / [Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4] of 1911 李宝嘉 Lǐ Bǎo jiā Li Boyuan 李 / 伯 / 元 / or Li Baojia (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations
on the current state of officialdom 官 / 場 / 現 / 形 / 記 / |官 / 场 / 现 / 形/记 李承
Lǐ Chéng wǎn Syngman Rhee (1875-1965), US trained
Korean politician and dictator, president of Republic of Korea 19481960 李 汝珍 Lǐ Rǔ zhēn Li Ruzhen (c. 1763-c. 1830), Qing novelist and phonologist, author of fantasy novel Jinghua Yuan 鏡 / 花 / 緣 / |镜 / 花 / 缘 / or Flowers in the Mirror 东川区 Dōng chuān qū Dongchuan district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 / [Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 东洲区 Dōng zhōu qū Dongzhou district of Fushun city 撫 / 順 / 市 / |抚 / 顺 / 市 / , Liaoning 柘城县 Zhè chéng xiàn Zhecheng county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 柞水县 Zhà shuǐ Xiàn Zhashui County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 柯邵忞 Kē Shào mín Ke Shaomin (1850-1933), modern historian, author of New history of the Yuan dynasty 新 / 元 / 史
梁
区 Liáng yuán qū Liangyuan district of Shangqiu city 商 / 丘 / 市 /
[Shang1 qiu1 shi4], Henan 梅西耶 Méi xī yē Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies 梅西叶 Méi xī yè Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies 杨 深秀 Yáng Shēn xiù Yang Shenxiu, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊 / 戌 / 六 / 君 / 子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 次区 Yú cì qū Yuci district of Jinzhong city 晉 / 中 / 市 / |晋 / 中 / 市 / [Jin4 zhong1 shi4], Shanxi 社县 Yú shè xiàn Yushe county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 橘子汁 jú zi zhī orange juice / CL:瓶 / [ping2],杯 / [bei1],罐 / [guan4],盒 / [he2] / see also 橙 / 汁 / [cheng2 zhi1] 段 玉裁 Duàn Yù cái Duan Yucai (1735-1815), author of Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) 說 / 文 / 解 / 字 / 註 / |说 / 文 / 解 / 字 / 注 / [Shuo1 wen2 Jie3 zi4 Zhu4] 毛塑像 Máo sù xiàng statue of Chairman Mao Zedong (1893-1976) 毛
/ 澤 / 東 / |毛 / 泽 / 东 / [Mao2 Ze2 dong1] 民权县 Mín quán xiàn Minquan county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 氯安酮 lu:4 ān tóng see 氯 /
/ 酮 / [lu:4 an4 tong2] / ketamine
永城市 Yǒng chéng shì Yongcheng county level city in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 沁水县 Qìn shuǐ xiàn Qinshui county in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi 沈 葆祯 Shěn Bǎo zhēn Shen Baozhen (1820-1879), Qing Minister of the Navy, founded Fuzhou Naval College 船 / 政 / 學 / 堂 / |船 / 政 / 学 / 堂 / [Chuan2 zheng4 Xue2 tang2] in 1866 没劲儿 méi jìn r erhua variant of 沒 / 勁 / |没 / 劲 / [mei2 jin4] 波兹曼 bō zī màn Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) 洛伦茨 Luò lún cí Lorentz (name) / Hendrik Lorentz (1853-1928), Dutch physicist, 1902 Nobel laureate 洛南县 Luò nán Xiàn Luonan County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi 洪亮吉 Hóng Liàng jí Hong Liangji (1746-1809), poet and historian
清原县 Qīng yuán xiàn Qingyuan county in Fushun 撫 / 順 / |抚 / 顺 / , Liaoning 清 太祖 Qīng Tài zǔ posthumous title of Nurhaci 努 / 爾 / 哈 / 赤 / |努 / 尔 / 哈 / 赤 / (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後 / 金 / |后 / 金 / (from 1616) 压病 jiǎn yā bìng decompression sickness / the bends / also 減 / 壓 /症/|
/ 压 / 症 / [jian3 ya1 zheng4]
压症 jiǎn yā zhèng decompression sickness / the bends / also 減 / 壓/病/|
/ 压 / 病 / [jian3 ya1 bing4]
浑球儿 hún qiú r variant of 混 / 球 / 兒 / |混 / 球 / 儿 / [hun2 qiu2 r5] 汤 玉麟 Tāng Yù lín Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承 / 德 / , mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth 渔钩儿 yú gōu r variant of 魚 / 鉤 / 兒 / |鱼 / 钩 / 儿 / [yu2 gou1 r5] 汉尼拔 Hàn ní bá Hannibal (name) / Hannibal Barca (247-183 BC), Carthaginian general 泽州县 Zé zhōu xiàn Zezhou county in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi
泽 普县 Zé pǔ xiàn Poskam nahiyisi (Poskam county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 神星 Zào shén xīng Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers 乌拉特 Wū lā tè Urat plain in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia / also Urat Front, Center and Rear banners 烷基
wán jī běn alkyl benzene / dodecylbenzene C18H30
熊成基 Xióng Chéng jī Xiong Chengji (1887-1910), anti-Qing revolutionary and martyr 热尔韦 Rè ěr wéi Gervais (name) / Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist 牛
裤 niú zǎi kù jeans / CL:條 / |条 / [tiao2] / also written 牛 / 仔 /
|牛 / 仔 / 裤 犟劲儿 jiàng jìn r erhua variant of 犟 / 勁 / |犟 / 劲 / [jiang4 jin4] 狄 公案 Dí Gōng An4 Dee Gong An (or Judge Dee's) Cases, 18th
/
century fantasy featuring Tang dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄 / 仁 / 傑 / |狄 / 仁 / 杰 / [Di2 Ren2 jie2] as master sleuth, translated by R.H. van Gulik as Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee 独体字 dú tǐ zì a primary (independently formed) character - i.e. a pictogram 象 / 形 / or ideogram 指 / 事 玩艺儿 wán yì r variant of 玩 / 意 / 兒 / |玩 / 意 / 儿 / [wan2 yi4 r5] 琅 威理 Láng Wēi lǐ Captain William M Lang (1843-), British adviser to the Qing north China navy 北 / 洋 / 水 / 師 / |北 / 洋 / 水 / 师 / during the 1880s 琉球国 Liú qiú guó Ryū / kyū / kingdom 1429-1879 (on modern Okinawa) 瓦 德西 Wǎ dé xī Waldersee (name) / Alfred Graf Von Waldersee (1832-1904), commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance 八 / 國 / 聯 / 軍 / |八 / 国 / 联 / 军 / [Ba1 guo2 Lian2 jun1] 疏勒县 Shū lè xiàn Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 疏附县 Shū fù xiàn Shufu county in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
瘾头儿 yǐn tóu r erhua variant of 皇太
/ 頭 / |瘾 / 头 / [yin3 tou2]
Huáng Tài jí Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努
/ 爾 / 哈 / 赤 / |努 / 尔 / 哈 / 赤 / , reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後 / 金 / |后 / 金 / , then founded the Qing dynasty 大 / 清 / and re 盘山县 Pán shān xiàn Panshan county in Panjin 盤 / 錦 / |盘 / 锦 / , Liaoning 盘龙区 Pán lóng qū Panlong district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 / [Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 省劲儿 shěng jìn r erhua variant of 省 / 勁 / |省 / 劲 / [sheng3 jin4] 眉 心轮 méi xīn lún ā / jñ / ā / or ajna, the brow or third eye chakra 查 / 克 / 拉 / , residing in the forehead / also written 眉 / 間 / 輪 / |眉 / 间 / 轮 / [mei2 jian1 lun2] 真分数 zhēn fēn shù proper fraction (with numerator < denominator, e.g. five sevenths) / see also: improper fraction 假 / 分 / 數 / |假 / 分 / 数 / [jia3 fen1 shu4] and mixed number 帶 / 分 / 數 / |带 / 分 / 数 / [dai4 fen1 shu4] 睢
区 Suī yáng qū Suiyang district of Shangqiu city 商 / 丘 / 市 /
[Shang1 qiu1 shi4], Henan 石林县 Shí lín xiàn Shilin Yi autonomous county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 石玉昆 Shí Yù kūn Shi Yukun (probably c. 1810-c. 1871), Qing pinghua 評 / 話 / |评 / 话 / master storyteller 磴口县 Dèng kǒu xiàn Dengkou county in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 禄劝县 Lù quàn xiàn Luquan Yi and Miao autonomous county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 福斯特 Fú sī tè Foster or Forster (name) / Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), American composer 谷神星 Gǔ shén xīng Ceres, dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by G. Piazzi 窝阔台 Wō kuò tái Ö / gedei Khan (1186-1242), a son of Genghis Khan 立 刀旁 lì dāo páng name of "knife" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18), occurring in 到 / , 利 / , [dao1]
/ etc / see also 刂 /
章士钊 Zhāng Shì zhāo Zhang Shizhao (1881-1973), revolutionary journalist in Shanghai, then established writer 章 太炎 Zhāng Tài yán Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution 章炳麟 Zhāng Bǐng lín Zhang Taiyan 章 / 太 / 炎 / (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution 米高扬 Mǐ gāo yáng Mikoyan (name) / Anastas Ivanonovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet politician, politburo member in the 1950s and 1960s / Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), brother of the politician and one designer of MiG military aircraft 纳尔逊 Nà ěr xùn Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero 维它命 wéi tā mìng variant of 維 / 他 / 命 / |维 / 他 / 命 / [wei2 ta1 ming4] 罗一秀 Luó Yī xiù Luo Yixiu (1889-1910), Mao Zedong's first wife 义 县龙 Yì xiàn lóng Yixianosaurus, genus of theropod dinosaur from Yi county 義 / 縣 / |义 / 县 / , Jinzhou 錦 / 州 / |锦 / 州 / , west Liaoning
翟理斯 Zhái lǐ sī Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system 考文垂 Kǎo wén chuí Coventry city in West Midlands 西 / 米 / 德 / 蘭 / 茲 / |西 / 米 / 德 / 兰 / 兹 / [Xi1 mi3 de2 lan2 zi1], UK 听 小骨 tīng xiǎo gǔ ossicles (of the middle ear) / three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙 / 骨 / |镫 / 骨 / , incus or anvil bone 砧 / 骨 / , malleus or hammer bone 錘 / 骨 / |锤 / 骨 腺嘌呤 xiàn piào lìng adenine nucleotide (A, pairs with thymine T 胸 / 腺 / 嘧 / 啶 / in DNA and with uracil U 尿 / 嘧 / 啶 / in RNA) 隆台 Xīng lóng tái Xinglongtai district of Panjin city 盤 / 錦 / 市 / |盘 / 锦 / 市 / , Liaoning 舒 梦兰 Shū Mèng lán Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白 / 香 / 詞 / 譜 / |白 / 香/词/谱 英 吉沙 Yīng jí shā Yé / ngisar nahiyisi (Yengisar county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
莎车县 Shā chē xiàn Yeken nahiyisi (Yarkand county or Shache) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 莱伊尔 Lái yī ěr Lyell (name) / Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish geologist 叶 城县 Yè chéng xiàn Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 葡糖
pú táng àn glucosamine / abbr. for 葡 / 萄 / 糖 /
蔡东藩 Cài Dōng fān Cai Dongfan (1877-1945), historian, author of popular general history texts up until his own time 土匪 niān tǔ fěi scoundrel with an honest demeanor / see also 兒/壞/|
/
/ 儿 / 坏 / [nian1 r5 huai4]
薛定谔 Xuē dìng è Erwin Schrö / dinger (1887-1961), Austrian physicist 薛福成 Xuē Fú chéng Xue Fucheng (1838-1894), Qing official and progressive political theorist 虞城县 Yú chéng xiàn Yucheng county in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan
西山区 Xī shān qū Xishan district of Kunming city 昆 / 明 / 市 / [Kun1 ming2 shi4], Yunnan 西楼记 Xī lóu jì Qing dynasty novel the Western Chamber by Yuan Yuling 袁 / 于 / 令 / same as 西 / 樓 / 夢 / |西 / 楼 / 梦 西秀区 Xī xiù qū Xixiu district of Anshun city 安 / 順 / 市 / |安 / 顺 / 市 / [An1 shun4 shi4], Guizhou 许
父 xǔ qín fù same as 許 /
/ 父 / |许 /
/ 父 / , Xu Qinfu (1891-
1953), journalist and writer 许
父 Xǔ Qín fù Xu Qinfu (1891-1953), journalist and writer
谭鑫培 Tán Xīn péi Tá / n Xī / npé / i (1847-1917), noted opera actor 费劲儿 fèi jìn r erhua variant of 費 / 勁 / |费 / 劲 / [fei4 jin4] 赵元任 Zhào Yuán rèn Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982), ChineseAmerican linguist 赵尔巽 Zhào Er3 xùn Zhao Erxun (1844-1927), modern historian, compiled the Draft History of the Qing dynasty 清 / 史 / 稿 较劲儿 jiào jìn r erhua variant of 較 / 勁 / |较 / 劲 / [jiao4 jin4] 邵 飄萍 shào piāo píng 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 郭松焘 Guō Sōng dào Guo Songdao or Kuo Sun-tao (1818-1891), China's first imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK and France 邹韬奋 Zōu Tāo fèn Zou Taofen (1895-1944), journalist, political theorist and publisher 金天翮 Jīn Tiān hé Jin Tianhe (1874-1947), late Qing poet and novelist, author of Flower in the sea of evil
/海/花
金 平县 Jīn píng xiàn Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai autonomous county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture 紅 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彞 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / |红 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彝 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / [Hong2 扣眼儿 kòu yǎn r erhua variant of 釦 / 眼 / |扣 / 眼 / [kou4 yan3] 锤骨柄 chuí gǔ bǐng manubrium of malleus (handle of hammer bone), connecting ossicles 聽 / 小 / 骨 / |听 / 小 / 骨 / to tympanum 鼓 / 膜 钱串儿 qián chuàn r erhua variant of 錢 / 串 / |钱 / 串 / [qian2 chuan4]
镇安县 Zhèn ān Xiàn Zhen'an County in Shangluo 商 / 洛 / [Shang1 luo4], Shaanxi
镇
县 Zhèn níng xiàn Zhenning Buyei and Hmong autonomous
county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 钟鼎文 zhōng dǐng wén bell-cauldron script / the 籀 / 文 / form of Chinese character used in metal inscriptions 钻劲儿 zuān jìn r erhua variant of 鑽 / 勁 / |钻 / 劲 / , to study enthusiastically 长葛市 Cháng gě shì Changge county level city in Shangqiu 商 / 丘 / [Shang1 qiu1], Henan 尔文 Kāi ěr wén Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson) / Kelvin (temperature scale) 县 Guān lǐng xiàn Guanling Buyei and Hmong autonomous county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 陈 云林 Chén Yún lín Chen Yunlin (1941-), Chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海 / 峽 / 兩 / 岸 / 關 / 係 / 協 / 會 / |海 / 峡 /
/岸/
/ 系 / 协 / 会 / [hai3 xia2
liang3 an4 guan1 x 陵川县 Líng chuān xiàn Lingcuan county in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi
陆征祥 Lù Zhēng xiáng Lu Zhengxiang (1871-1949), Chinese diplomat and Catholic monk 陆
廷 Lù Róng tíng Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of
Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leader of old Guangxi warlord faction 城县 Yáng chéng xiàn Yangcheng county in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi 隐君子 yǐn jūn zi recluse / hermit / used for homophone
/君/子/
|瘾 / 君 / 子 / , opium addict 双台子 Shuāng tái zi Shuangtai district of Panjin city 盤 / 錦 / 市 / |盘 / 锦 / 市 / , Liaoning 雷诺阿 Léi nuò ā Renoir (name) / Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter 石县 Líng shí xiàn Lingshi county in Jinzhong 晉 / 中 / |晋 / 中 / [Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi 韦 格纳 Wéi gé nà Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift / also written 魏 / 格 / 納 / |魏 / 格 / 纳
韩世昌 Hán Shì chāng Han Shichang (1897-1977), actor specializing in Kunqu opera 昆 / 曲 韩
矩 Hán Fù jǔ Han Fuju (1890-1938), Nationalist Kuomintang
(KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣 / 介 / 石 / |蒋 / 介 / 石 / [Jiang3 Jie4 shi2] after he abandoned Ji'nan to the Japanese 韩邦庆 Hán Bāng qìng Han Bangqing (1856-1894), writer and publisher of experimental literary journal in classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular, author of novel 海 / 上 / 花 / 列 / 傳 / |海 / 上 / 花 / 列/传 顺城区 Shùn chéng qū Shuncheng district of Fushun city 撫 / 順 / 市 / |抚 / 顺 / 市 / , Liaoning 额济纳 E2 jì nà Ejin Banner in Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979) 额 尔金 E2 ěr jīn James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓 / 明 / 園 / |圆 / 明 / 1860 / Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-
/ in
马克沁 Mǎ kè qìn Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun 马斯内 Mǎ sī nèi Jules Massenet (1842-1912), French composer 高平市 Gāo píng shì Gaoping county level city in Jincheng 晉 / 城 / |晋 / 城 / [Jin4 cheng2], Shanxi 高本汉 Gāo Běn hàn Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist 高丽朝 Gāo lí cháo Korean Goryeo 고 / 려 / dynasty, 918-1392 斗趣儿 dòu qù r variant of 逗 / 趣 / 兒 / |逗 / 趣 / 儿 / [dou4 qu4 r5] 魏 格纳 Wèi gé nà Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift 鱼
期 yú xùn qī variant of 漁 /
/ 期 / |渔 /
/ 期 / [yu2 xun4 qi1]
鲍罗丁 Bào luó dīng Borodin (name) / Alexander Borodin (18331887), Russian chemist and composer 鲍罗廷 Bào luó tíng Borodin (name) / Alexander Porfirevich Borodin (1833-1887), Russian chemist and composer 鳞翅目 lín chì mù Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶 /
類 / |蝶 / 类 / and moths 蛾 / 類 / |蛾 / 类 / ) 鸟嘌呤 niǎo piào lìng guanine nucleotide (G, pairs with cytosine C 胞 / 嘧 / 啶 / in DNA and RNA) 麦 盖提 Mài gě tí Mekit nahiyisi (Makit county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 黄巾军 huáng jīn jūn the army of Yellow Turbans, a peasant uprising at the end of later Han (from 184) 黄 遵宪 Huáng Zūn xiàn Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), Qing dynasty poet and diplomat, author of A record of Japan 日 / 本 / 國 / 誌 / |日 / 本 / 国 / 志 / , an extended analysis of Meiji Japan 黑山县 Hēi shān xiàn Heishan county in Jinzhou 錦 / 州 / |锦 / 州 / , Liaoning 黑 水城 Hēi shuǐ Chéng ruins of Heishui Town of Xixia 西 / 夏 / [Xi1 Xia4] people, in Ejin Banner 額 / 濟 / 納 / 旗 / |额 / 济 / 纳 / 旗 / [E2 ji4 na4 Qi2], Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia 齐柏林 Qí bó lín Zeppelin (name) / Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), inventor of the Zeppelin dirigible airship
庞加莱 Páng jiā lái Henri Poincaré / (1854-1912), French mathematician, physician and philosopher 帕累托 Pà lèi tuō Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), Italian economist 乔 巴山 Qiáo bā shān Choibalsan, city in Mongolia, capital of the eastern aimag (province) of Dornod / Khorloogiin Choibalsan (18951952), Communist leader of the Mongolian People's Republic (mid1930s-1952) 橘子水 jú zi shuǐ orangeade / orange squash / CL:瓶 / [ping2],杯 / [bei1],罐 / [guan4],盒 / [he2] 老 佛爷 Lǎo fó yé title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈 / 禧 / 太 / 后 / [Ci2 xi3 Tai4 hou4] 维尼纶 wéi ní lún see 維 / 綸 / |维 / 纶 / [wei2 lun2] 倪桂珍 Ní Guì zhēn Ni Guizhen or Ni Kwei-Tseng (1869 - 1931), mother of Song Ailing 宋 / 藹 / 齡 / |宋 / 蔼 / 龄 / [Song4 Ai3 ling2], Song Qingling 宋 / 慶 / 齡 / |宋 / 庆 / 龄 / [Song4 Qing4 ling2] and Song Meiling 宋 / 美 / 简・爱 Jiǎn · Aì Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë / 夏 / 洛 / 特 / · /
勃/良/特 莱佛士 Lái fó shì Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore / surname Raffles 邵 飘萍 Shào Piāo píng 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 哈拉子 hā lā zi (dialect) saliva / also written 哈 / 喇 / 子 / [ha1 la2 zi5] 白翎面 Bái líng miàn Baengnyeong township (South Korea) / see also 白 / 翎 / 島 / |白 / 翎 / 岛 / [Bai2 ling2 Dao3] 咬病 pí yǎo bìng tick-bite sickness / informal term for 發 / 熱 / 伴 / 血 / 小 / 板 / 減 / 少 / 綜 / 合 / 徵 / |发 / 热 / 伴 / 血 / 小 / 板 /
/少/综
/ 合 / 征 / [fa1 re4 ban4 xue4 xiao3 ban3 jian3 sha 酒鬼酒 Jiǔ guǐ jiǔ Jiugui Liquor, liquor company from 吉 / 首 / [Ji2 shou3] 电话号码 diàn huà hào mǎ telephone number / CL:串 / [chuan4] 未成年人 wèi chéng nián rén minor (i.e. person under 18) 外资企业 wài zī qǐ yè abbr. for 外 / 商 / 獨 / 資 / 企 / 業 / |外 / 商 / 独 / 资 / 企 / 业 / [wai4 shang1 du2 zi1 qi3 ye4]
国 际米兰 Guó jì Mǐ lán FC Internazionale Milano (football club) / abbr. for 國 / 際 / 米 / 蘭 / 足 / 球 / 球/
/ 樂 / 部 / |国 / 际 / 米 / 兰 / 足 /
/ 乐 / 部 / [Guo2 ji4 Mi3 lan2 Zu2 qiu2 Ju4 le4 bu4]
爱因斯坦 Aì yīn sī tǎn Albert Einstein (1879-1955), famous Austrian physicist 鸦片战争 Yā piàn Zhàn zhēng the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861 太平天国 Tài píng Tiān guó Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864) 一个劲儿 yī gè jìn r erhua variant of 一 / 個 / 勁 / |一 / 个 / 劲 / [yi1 ge4 jin4] 慈禧太后 Cí xǐ Tài hòu Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (18351908), regent 1861-1908 外 科医生 wài kē yī shēng surgeon / as opposed to physician 內 / 科 / 醫 / 生 / |内 / 科 / 医 / 生 / [nei4 ke1 yi1 sheng1], who works primarily by administering drugs 努尔哈赤 Nǔ ěr hā chì Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後 / 金 / |后 / 金 / (from 1616) 工业革命 Gōng yè Gé mìng Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
弗洛伊德 Fú luò yī dé Floyd (name) / Freud (name) / Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the inventor of psychoanalysis 托 尔斯泰 Tuō ěr sī tài Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰 / 爭 / 與 / 和 / 平 / |战 / 争 / 与 / 和 / 平 四大名著 sì dà míng zhù the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅 / 樓 / 夢 / |红 / 楼 / 梦 / [Hong2 lou2 Meng4], Romance of Three Kingdoms 三 / 國 / 演 / 義 / |三 / 国 / 演 / 义 / [San1 guo2 Yan3 甲午战争 Jiǎ wǔ Zhàn zhēng First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) 华商晨报 Huá shāng Chén bào China Business Morning Post (morning edition of China Business News 華 / 商 / 報 / |华 / 商 / 报 / ) 巴尔扎克 Bā ěr zhā kè Honoré / de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comé / die humaine 洋 务运动 Yáng wù Yùn dòng Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自 / 強 / 運 / 動 / |自 / 强/运/动 三民主义 sān mín zhǔ yì Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫 / 中 / 山 / |孙 / 中 / 山 /
Three principles of the people (late 1890s) 明治维新 Míng zhì wéi xīn the Japanese Meiji restoration of 1868 悲 惨世界 Bēi cǎn Shì jiè Les Misé / rables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維 / 克 / 多 / ・ / 雨 / 果 / |维 / 克 / 多 / ・ / 雨 / 果 / [Wei2 ke4 duo1 · / Yu3 guo3] 助纣 为虐 zhù Zhòu wéi nu:è lit. helping tyrant Zhou 商 / 紂 / 王 / |商 / 纣 / 王 / [Shang1 Zhou4 wang2] in his oppression (idiom) / fig. to take the side of the evil-doer / giving succor to the enemy 葛莱美奖 Gě lái měi jiǎng Grammy Award (US prize for music recording) / also written 格 / 萊 / 美 / 獎 / |格 / 莱 / 美 / 奖 勿 忘国耻 wù wàng guó chǐ Never forget national humiliation, refers to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九 / 一 / 八 / 事 / 變 / |九 / 一 / 八 / 事 / 变 / and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria 格莱美奖 Gé lái měi jiǎng Grammy Award (US prize for music recording) / also written 葛 / 萊 / 美 / 獎 / |葛 / 莱 / 美 / 奖 勃拉姆斯 Bó lā mǔ sī Brahms (name) / Johannes Brahms (18331897), German romantic composer
麦 克斯韦 Mài kè sī wéi Maxwell (name) / James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves 德沃夏克 Dé wò xià kè Antonin Dvoř / á / k (1841-1904), Bohemian composer, author of nine symphonies including the New World symphony 黄巾起义 huáng jīn qǐ yì Yellow Turbans peasant uprising at the end of later Han (from 184) 托洛茨基 Tuō luò cí jī Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940 捷列夫 Mén jié liè fū Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table 大
风景 dà shà fēng jǐng see 大 / 殺 / 風 / 景 / |大 / 杀 / 风 / 景 / [da4
sha4 feng1 jing3] 巴黎公社 Bā lí Gōng shè Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic 戊戌变法 Wù xū Biàn fǎ Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty 劈里啪
pī li pā la variant of 批 / 哩 / 啪 /
/ [pi1 li5 pa1 la5]
文风不动 wén fēng bù dòng absolutely still / fig. not the slightest change / also written 紋 / 風 / 不 / 動 / |纹 / 风 / 不 / 动 百 年树人 bǎi nián shù rén It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop. / refers to the idiom 十 / 年 / 樹 / 木 / ,百 / 年 / 樹 / 人 / |十 / 年 / 树 / 百日维新 Bǎi rì Wéi xīn Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty 螳 臂当车 táng bì dāng chē a mantis trying to stop a chariot (idiom) / to overrate oneself and attempt sth impossible / also written 螳 / 臂 / / 車 / |螳 / 臂 / 挡 / 车 / [tang2 bi4 dang3 che1] 披麻戴孝 pī má dài xiào to wear mourning clothes / to be in mourning / also written 披 / 麻 / 帶 / 孝 / |披 / 麻 / 带 / 孝 望风捕影 wàng fēng bǔ yǐng see 捕 / 風 / 捉 / 影 / |捕 / 风 / 捉 / 影 / [bu3 feng1 zhuo1 ying3] 多米尼克 Duō mǐ ní kè Dominica / Dominican Republic / also written 多/米/尼/加 赫鲁晓夫 Hè lǔ xiǎo fu Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-
general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964 斯密约瑟 Sī mì Yuē sè Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), founder of the Latter Day Saint movement 维新变法 Wéi xīn Biàn fǎ Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty 东条英机 Dōng tiáo Yīng jī Tojo Hideki (1884-1948), Japanese military leader hanged as war criminal in 1948 佛洛伊德 Fó luò yī dé Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), psychoanalyst 钢 铁学院 Gāng tiě Xué yuàn Beijing Steel and Iron Institute (the former name of 北 / 京 / 科 / 技 / 大 / 學 / |北 / 京 / 科 / 技 / 大 / 学 / [Bei3 jing1 Ke1 ji4 Da4 xue2], University of Science and Technology Beijing) 黄巾民变 huáng jīn mín biàn the Yellow Turbans peasant uprising at the end of later Han (from 184) 马
条约 Mǎ guān Tiáo yuē Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895),
concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲 / 午 / 戰 / 爭 / |甲 / 午 / 战 / 争 / [Jia3 wu3 Zhan4 zheng1] 蒙哥马利 Méng gē mǎ lì Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal / Montgomery or
Montgomerie (surname) 中法战争 Zhōng Fǎ Zhàn zhēng Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam) 三 侠五义 Sān xiá wǔ yì Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評 / 話 / |评 / 话 / master storyteller Shi Yukun 石 / 玉 / 昆 世宗大王 Shì zōng dà wáng Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented 中法新约 Zhōng Fǎ xīn yuē treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France 五 七干校 wǔ qī gàn xiào May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution) / abbr. for 五 / 七 / 幹 / 部 / 學 / 校 / |五 / 七 / 干 / 部 / 学 / 校 / [wu3 qi1 gan4 bu4 xue2 xiao4] 五口通商 wǔ kǒu tōng shāng the five treaty ports forced on Qing China by the 1842 treaty of Nanjing 南 / 京 / 條 / 約 / |南 / 京 / 条 / 约 / that concluded the First Opium War, namely: Guangzhou 廣 / 州 / |广 / 州 / , Fuzhou 福 / 州 / , Ni
京杭运河 Jīng Háng Yùn hé the Grand canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC 京 沪高铁 Jīng Hù gāo tiě Beijing and Shanghai express rail link (projected) / abbr. for 京 / 滬 / 高 / 速 / 鐵 / 路 / |京 / 沪 / 高 / 速 / 铁 / 路 何鲁晓夫 Hé lǔ xiǎo fū Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretarygeneral of Soviet communist party 1953-1964 / also written 赫 / 魯 / 曉 / 夫 / |赫 / 鲁 / 晓 / 夫 克劳修斯 kè láo xiū sī Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888) 克里普斯 Kè lǐ pǔ sī Cripps (name) / Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), UK socialist politician 内 科医生 nèi kē yī shēng medical doctor / physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外 / 科 / 醫 / 生 / |外 / 科 / 医 / 生 / [wai4 ke1 yi1 sheng1] 前半晌儿 qián bàn shǎng r erhua variant of 前 / 半 / 晌 / [qian2 ban4 shang3] 加里波第 Jiā lǐ bō dì Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician
北洋水师 Běi yáng shuǐ shī north China navy (esp. the ill-fated Chinese navy in the 1895 war with Japan) 南京条约 Nán jīng tiáo yuē Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain 卡文迪什 Kǎ wén dí shí Cavendish (name) / Henry Cavendish (17311810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist 古 今小说 Gǔ jīn xiǎo shuō Tales old and new by Feng Menglong 馮 / 夢 / 龍 / |冯 / 梦 / 龙 / , collection of late Ming baihua 白 / 話 / |白 / 话 / tales 叱
风云 chì zhà fēng yún variant of 叱 / 咤 / 風 / 雲 / |叱 / 咤 / 风 / 云
/ [chi4 zha4 feng1 yun2] 史沫特莱 Shǐ mò tè lái Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist and activist, reported on China, esp. the communist side 唱高调儿 chàng gāo diào r erhua variant of 唱 / 高 / 調 / |唱 / 高 / 调 / [chang4 gao1 diao4] 唤 雨呼风 huàn yǔ hū fēng to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom) / to exercise magical powers / fig. to stir up troubles / also 呼 / 風 / 喚 / 雨 / |呼 / 风 / 唤 / 雨 / [hu1 feng1 huan4 yu3] 国共内战 Guó gòng nèi zhàn Chinese Civil War, also known as War
of Liberation 解 / 放 / 戰 / 爭 / |解 / 放 / 战 / 争 埃斯特朗 Aī sī tè lǎng Anders Jonas Angstrom or Å / ngströ / m (1814-1874), Swedish physicist 墨索里尼 Mò suǒ lǐ ní Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943 夏目漱石 Xià mù shù shí Natsume Sō / seki (1867-1916), one of the first modern Japanese novelist 多明尼加 Duō míng ní jiā Dominica / Dominican Republic / also written 多 / 米 / 尼 / 加 大 沽炮台 Dà gū pào tái Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860) 大西庇阿 Dà xī bì ā Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC), Roman general and statesman 大韩帝国 Dà hán Dì guó Korean Empire, from fall of Joseon dynasty in 1897 to annexation by Japan in 1910 天 津条约 Tiān jīn tiáo yuē Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不 / 平 / 等 / 條 / 約 / |不 / 平 / 等 / 条 / 约 / between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China
天路历程 Tiān lù Lì chéng Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851) 奥匈帝国 Aò Xiōng Dì guó Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867-1918 奥康内尔 Aò kāng nèi ěr O'Connell (name) / Daniel O'Connell (17751847), Irish nationalist and catholic activist 好 兵帅克 Hǎo bīng Shuài kè The Good Soldier &Scaron / vejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Ha&scaron / ek (1883-1923) 子弹火车 zǐ dàn huǒ chē bullet train / Shinkansen 新 / 幹 / 線 / |新 / 干 / 线 / , Japanese high-speed train 孔雀王朝 Kǒng què Wáng cháo Maurya Dynasty of India (322-185 BC) 小儿痲痹 xiǎo ér má bì variant of 小 / 兒 / 麻 / 痺 / |小 / 儿 / 麻 / 痹 / infantile paralysis / polio (poliomyelitis) 屠格涅夫 Tú gé niè fū Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist 岳 普湖县 Yuè pǔ hú xiàn Yopurgha nahiyisi (Yopurga county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
巴彦浩特 Bā yàn Hào tè Bayan Hot, capital of Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia 巴甫洛夫 Bā fǔ Luò fū Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (18491936), Russian experimental psychologist 巴 解组织 Bā jiě Zǔ zhī Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) / abbr. for 巴 / 勒 / 斯 / 坦 / 解 / 放 / 組 / 織 / |巴 / 勒 / 斯 / 坦 / 解 / 放 / 组 / 织 / [Ba1 le4 si1 tan3 Jie3 fang4 Zu3 zhi1] 希尔伯特 Xī ěr bó tè David Hilbert (1862-1943), German mathematician 希耳伯特 Xī ěr bó tè David Hilbert (1862-1943), German mathematician 德 法年鉴 dé fǎ nián jiàn Deutsch-franzö / sische Jahrbü / cher (published once in 1844 by Karl Marx and bourgeois radical Arnold Ruge) 德雷福斯 Dé léi fú sī Dreyfus (name) / Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French artillery officer of Alsatian and Jewish background, infamously imprisoned 1894 in miscarriage of justice 悬梁刺股 xuán liáng cì gǔ to study assiduously and tirelessly (idiom) / see also 頭 / 懸 / 梁 /
/ 錐 / 刺 / 股 / |头 / 悬 / 梁 /
/锥/刺/股/
[tou2 xuan2 liang2 , zhui1 ci4 gu3] 戊 戌政变 wù xū zhèng biàn coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈 / 禧 / 太 / 后 / [Ci2 xi3 Tai4 hou4] ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty 戊戌维新 Wù xū Wéi xīn Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty 拉普拉斯 Lā pǔ lā sī Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician 拉格朗日 Lā gé lǎng rì Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist 排华法案 pái Huá fǎ àn Chinese Exclusion Act, a US law restricting Chinese immigration from 1882-1943 春 秋五霸 chūn qiū wǔ bà the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), namely: Duke Huan of Qi 齊 / 桓 / 公 / |齐 / 桓 / 公 / , Duke Wen of Jin 晉 / 文 / 公 / |晋 / 文 / 公 / , King Zhuang of Chu 楚 / 莊 / 王 / |č 普 氏野马 Pǔ shì yě mǎ Przevalski horse (Equus przewalskii) wild horse of Central Asia first identified in 1881 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普 / 爾 / 熱 / 瓦 / 爾 / 斯 / 基 / |普 / 尔 / 热 / 瓦 / 尔 / 斯 / 基
普法战争 pǔ fǎ zhàn zhēng Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) 替罪羔羊 tì zuì gāo yáng scapegoat / sacrificial lamb / same as 替 / 罪 /羊 朝鲜太宗 Cháo xiǎn Tài zōng King Taejong of Joseon Korea (13671422), reigned 1400-1418 李 希霍芬 Lǐ xī huò fēn Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲 / 綢 / 之 / 路 / |丝 / 绸 / 之 / 路 杭锦后旗 Háng jǐn hòu qí Hanggin Rear banner or Xanggin Xoit khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 东现汉纪 Dōng xiàn hàn jì Records of the Eastern Han, model for History of Later Han 後 / 漢 / 書 / |后 / 汉 / 书 东 突组织 Dōng tū zǔ zhī abbr. for 東 / 突 / 厥 / 斯 / 坦 / 解 / 放 / 組 / 織 / |东 / 突 / 厥 / 斯 / 坦 / 解 / 放 / 组 / 织 / East Turkestan liberation organization ETLO, Chinese dissident group 梅斯梅尔 Méi sī méi ěr Mesmer (name) / Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-
1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis 欧
予倩 Oū yáng Yú qiàn Ouyang Yuqian (1889-1962), Chinese
actor 武 王伐纣 Wǔ wáng fá Zhòu King Wu of Zhou 周 / 武 / 王 / [Zhou1 Wu3 wang2] overthrows tyrant Zhou of Shang 商 / 紂 / 王 / |商 / 纣 / 王 / [Shang1 Zhou4 wang2] 求死愿望 qiú sǐ yuàn wàng death wish (translated from English) / Death wish, movie series with Charles Bronson is translated as 猛 / 龍 / 怪 / 客 / |猛 / 龙 / 怪 / 客 / [Meng3 long2 guai4 ke4] 没有
系 méi yǒu guān xi see 沒 / 關 / 係 / |没 /
/ 系 / [mei2 guan1
xi5] 浮 生六记 fú shēng liù jì Six records of a floating life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈 / 復 / |沈 /
/ [Shen3
Fu4], published 1808 海上奇书 hǎi shàng qí shū literary journal published in 1892-93 by Han Bangqing 韓 / 邦 / 慶 / |韩 / 邦 / 庆 / featuring serialized novels in classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular 港英政府 Gǎng Yīng zhèng fǔ British colonial administration of Hong
Kong 1837-1941 and 1945-1997 汤 武革命 Tāng Wǔ Gé mìng the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商 / 湯 / |商 / 汤 / [Shang1 Tang1], of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 玩偶之家 Wán ǒu zhī jiā Doll's House (1879), drama by Ibsen 易 / 卜 / 生 琉球王国 Liú qiú wáng guó Ryū / kyū / kingdom 1429-1879 (on modern Okinawa) 瑷珲条约 ài hún tiáo yuē Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia 生 米熟饭 shēng mǐ shú fàn abbr. for 生 / 米 / 煮 / 成 / 熟 / 飯 / |生 / 米 / 煮 / 成 / 熟 / 饭 / , lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom) / fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. 甲申政变 Jiǎ shēn zhèng biàn unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops 毕尼奥夫 Bì ní ào fū Hugo Benioff (1899-1968), CalTech seismologist
番茄炒蛋 fān qié chǎo dàn scrambled egg with fresh tomatoes (north China) / same as 西 / 紅 / 柿 / 炒 / 蛋 / |西 / 红 / 柿 / 炒 / 蛋 疑问代词 yí wèn dài cí interrogative pronoun (誰 / |谁 / , 什 / 麼 / |什 / 么/,
/兒/|
/ 儿 / etc)
白 香词谱 Bái xiāng cí pǔ Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒 / 夢 / 蘭 / |舒 / 梦 / 兰 / , with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times 福泽谕吉 Fú zé Yù jí Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901), prominent Japanese westernizer, liberal educator and founder of Keio University
窝阔台汗 wō kuò tái hàn Ö / gedei Khan (1186
/ 1242), a son of
Genghis Khan 第一国际 dì yī guó jì First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866 纹风不动 wén fēng bù dòng absolutely still / fig. not the slightest change / also written 文 / 風 / 不 / 動 / |文 / 风 / 不 / 动 脱咖
因 tuō kā fēi yīn decaffeinated / decaf / see also 無 / 咖 /
/因
/ |无 / 咖 /
/ 因 / [wu2 ka1 fei1 yin1]
自 强运动 Zì qiáng Yùn dòng Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋 / 務 / 運 / 動 / |洋 / 务 / 运/动 隆台区 Xīng lóng tái qū Xinglongtai district of Panjin city 盤 / 錦 / 市 / |盘 / 锦 / 市 / , Liaoning 船政学堂 Chuán zhèng Xué táng Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty
英 吉沙县 Yīng jí shā xiàn Yé / ngisar nahiyisi (Yengisar county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 蒭藁增二 chú gǎo zēng èr same as 米 / 拉 / , Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti), variable star with period of 330 days 萨 尔科齐 Sà ěr kē qí Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), French UMP politician, President 2007-2012 / also written 薩 / 科 / 齊 / |萨 / 科 / 齐 / [Sa4 ke1 qi2] 塘退士 Héng táng Tuì shì assumed name of Sun Zhu 孫 / 誅 / |孙 /
诛 / [Sun1 Zhu1] (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three hundred Tang dynasty poems 唐 / 詩 / 三 / 百 / 首 / |唐 / 诗 / 三 / 百 / 首 / [Tang2 shi1 san1 bai3 shou3] 训民正音 Xùn mín Zhèng yīn Korean text HunMin JongUm promulgated by Sejong Daewang in 1418 to introduce hangeul 豆 寇年华 dòu kòu nián huá used erroneously for 豆 / 蔻 / 年 / 華 / |豆 / 蔻 / 年 / 华 / , a girl's teenage years (idiom) / maidenhood / a budding beauty 费尔巴哈 Fèi ěr bā hā Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), materialist philosopher 赫鲁雪夫 hè lǔ xuě fū Nikita Sergeyevich Krushchev (1894-1971), Secretary-General of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964 近 卫文麿 Jìn wèi Wén mǒ Prince KONOE Fumimaro (1891-), Japanese nobleman and militarist politician, prime minister 19371939 and 1940-1941 迪斯雷利 Dí sī léi lì Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880 醒 世恒言 Xǐng shì Héng yán Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮 / 夢 / 龍 / |冯 / 梦 / 龙 / [Feng2
Meng4 long2] published in 1627 铁血宰相 Tiě xuè zǎi xiàng Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, Minister-President of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890 阿斯巴特 ā sī bā tè aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener) 阿 普尔顿 A1 pǔ ěr dùn Appleton (name) / Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere 隐花植 物 yǐn huā zhí wù Cryptogamae / cryptogamous plant (botany) / plants such as algae 藻 / 類 / |藻 / 类 / [zao3 lei4], moss 苔 / 蘚 / |苔 / 藓 / [tai2 xian3] and fern 蕨 / 類 / |蕨 / 类 / [jue2 lei4] that reproduce by spores 孢 / 双氯灭痛 shuāng lu:4 miè tòng diclofenac pain-killer / also called 扶 / 他/林 双台子区 Shuāng tái zi qū Shuangtai district of Panjin city 盤 / 錦 / 市 / |盘 / 锦 / 市 / , Liaoning 额济纳旗 E2 jì nà Qí Ejin Banner in Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
额济纳河 E2 jì nà Hé Ejin River in Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia 额 菲尔士 E2 fēi ěr shì Everest (name) / Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843 / transliteration refers to Mt Everest 珠 / 穆 / 朗 / 瑪 / 峰 / |珠 / 穆 / 朗 / 玛 / 峰 / , Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Ti 马噶尔尼 Mǎ gá ěr ní Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle 马戛尔尼 Mǎ jiá ěr ní Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle 骊姬之乱 lí jī zhī luàn Liji rebellion in 657-651 BC, eventually defeated by Duke Wen of Jin 晉 / 文 / 公 / |晋 / 文 / 公 高丽王朝 Gāo lí Wáng cháo Korean Goryeo 고 / 려 / Dynasty, 9181392 基配对 jiǎn jī pèi duì base pairing (e.g. adenine A 腺 / 嘌 / 呤 / pairs with thymine T 胸 / 腺 / 嘧 / 啶 / in DNA) / base pair 麦 克米兰 Mài kè mǐ lán McMillan or MacMillan (name) / Harold
Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963 麦 克阿瑟 Mài kè ā sè General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war 麦尔维尔 Mài ěr wéi ěr Melville (name) / Herman Melville (18191891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白 / 鯨 / |白 / 鲸 / [bai2 jing1]
麦盖提县 Mài gě tí xiàn Mekit nahiyisi (Makit county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 黄巾之乱 huáng jīn zhī luàn the Yellow Turbans peasant uprising at the end of later Han (from 184) 黑 籍冤魂 Hēi Jí Yuān hún Black Register of Lost Souls, long novel by Peng Yangou 彭 / 養 / 鷗 / |彭 /
/ 鸥 / about the destructive
influence of opium, published in 1897 and 1909 伊藤博文 Yī téng Bó wén ITŌ / Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese Meiji restoration politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin
科普特语 Kē pǔ tè yǔ Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科 / 普 / 特 / 人 / [Ke1 pu3 te4 ren2], spoken in Egypt until late 17th century 福禄贝尔 Fú lù bèi ěr surname Frö / bel or Froebel / Friedrich Wilhelm August Frö / bel (1782-1852), German pedagogue 塞 万提斯 Sāi wàn tí sī Cervantes / abbr. for 米 / 格 / 爾 / ・ / 德 / ・ / 塞 / 萬 / 提 / 斯 / ・ / 薩 / 維 / 德 / 拉 / |米 / 格 / 尔 / ・ / 德 / ・ / 塞 / 万 /提/斯/・/萨/维/德 吡拉西坦 bǐ lā xī tǎn piracetam (loanword) / see 乙 / 酰 /
/吡/咯/
烷 / 酮 / [yi3 xian1 an4 bi3 luo4 wan2 tong2] 居 礼夫人 Jū lǐ Fū ren Maria Skł / odowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867-1934), double Nobel prize-winner in Physics 1903 and Chemistry 1911 儿媳妇儿 ér xí fu r erhua variant of 兒 / 媳 / 婦 / |儿 / 媳 / 妇 / [er2 xi2 fu5] 惟命是听 wéi mìng shì tīng see 唯 / 命 / 是 / 從 / |唯 / 命 / 是 / 从 / [wei2 ming4 shi4 cong2] 普鲁斯特 Pǔ lǔ sī tè Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
法轮大法 Fǎ lún Dà fǎ another name for 法 / 輪 / 功 / |法 / 轮 / 功 / [Fa3 lun2 Gong1] 窝阔台汗 Wō kuò tái hán Ö / gedei Khan (1186-1242), a son of Genghis Khan 伊 藤·博文 ITŌ / Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese Meiji restoration politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin 安·海瑟薇 see 安 /
/ ・ / 海 / 瑟 / 薇 / |安 /
/・/海/瑟/薇/
[An1 ni2 · / Hai3 se4 wei1] 斯 文·海定 Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓 / 蘭 / |楼 / 兰 / also written 斯 / 文 / · /赫/定 柯 南·道尔 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇 / 洛 / 克 / · / 福 / 爾 / 摩 / 斯 / |歇 / 洛 / 克 / ·/福/尔/摩/斯 海 伦·凯勒 Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker) 珍·奥斯汀 Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist / also written 简
/ ・ / 奧 / 斯 / 汀 / |简 / ・ / 奥 / 斯 / 汀 / [Jian3 · / Ao4 si1 ting1] 商务印书馆 Shāng wù Yìn shū guǎn The Commercial Press, Shanghai (from 1897) 放源代码 kāi fàng yuán dài mǎ see 開 / 放 / 源 / 碼 / |
/放/源/码
/ [kai1 fang4 yuan2 ma3] 中 国教育网 Zhōng guó Jiào yù wǎng abbr. for 中 / 國 / 教 / 育 / 和 / 科 / 研 / 計 / 算 / 機 / 網 / |中 / 国 / 教 / 育 / 和 / 科 / 研 / 计 / 算 / 机 / 网 / [Zhong1 guo2 Jiao4 yu4 he2 Ke1 yan2 Ji4 suan4 ji1 wang3] 京杭大运河 Jīng Háng Dà Yùn hé the Grand canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC 共 产党宣言 Gòng chǎn dǎng Xuān yán Manifesto of the Communist Party / "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei" by Marx and Engels (1848) 疾风知 劲草 jí fēng zhī jìng cǎo the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom) / fig. troubled times test a faithful minister / to show one's true colors after a stern test / also written 疾 / 風 / 勁 / 草 / |疾 / 风 / 劲 / 草
伏罗希洛夫 Fú luó xī luò fū Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander
穆索尔斯基 Mù suǒ ěr sī jī Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition 九 一八事变 Jiǔ Yī bā Shì biàn the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria / also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳 / 條 / 溝 / 事 / 變 / |柳 / 条 / 沟 / 事 / 变 乾嘉三大家 Qián Jiā sān dà jiā Three great poets of the Qianlong and Jiaqing era (1735-1820), namely: Yuan Mei 袁 / 枚 / , Jiang Shiquan 蔣 / 士 / 銓 / |蒋 / 士 / 铨 / and Zhao Yi 趙 / 翼 / |赵 / 翼 亚罗号事件 Yà luó hào shì jiàn the Arrow incident of 1856 (used as pretext for the second Opium War) 赫捷列夫 Bié hè jié liè fū Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (18571927), Russian neurologist and psychiatrist 唐高祖李渊 Táng Gāo zǔ Lǐ Yuān Li Yuan (566-635), first Tang emperor Gaozu, reigned 618-626 哑 巴吃黄莲 yǎ ba chī huáng lián no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞 / 巴 / 吃 / 黃 / 連 / |哑 / 巴 / 吃 / 黄 / 连 / (often precedes 有 / 苦 / 說 / 不 / 出 / |有 / 苦 / 说 / 不 / 出 / [you3 ku3 shuo1
哑巴吃黄连 yǎ ba chī huáng lián no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞 / 巴 / 吃 / 黃 / 蓮 / |哑 / 巴 / 吃 / 黄 / 莲 / (often precedes 有 / 苦 / 說 / 不 / 出 / |有 / 苦 / 说 / 不 / 出 / [you3 ku3 shuo1
国际米兰队 Guó jì Mǐ lán Duì FC Internazionale Milano (football club) / abbr. for 國 / 際 / 米 / 蘭 / 足 / 球 / 球/
/ 樂 / 部 / |国 / 际 / 米 / 兰 / 足 /
/ 乐 / 部 / [Guo2 ji4 Mi3 lan2 Zu2 qiu2 Ju4 le4 bu4]
域多利皇后 Yù duō lì huáng hòu Queen Victoria (1819-1901), reigned 1837-1901 大久保利通 Dà jiǔ bǎo Lì tōng Oukubo Toshimichi (1830-1878), Japanese politician 封 闭性
局 Fēng bì xìng Kāi jú Closed Game / Double Queen Pawn
Opening (chess) / same as 雙 / 后 / 前 / 兵 / 開 / 局 / |双 / 后 / 前 / 兵 / /局 山本五十六 Shān běn Wǔ shí liù YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral 岩仓使节团 Yán cāng shǐ jié tuán the Iwakura mission (Japanese
diplomatic and exploratory mission to US and Europe of 1871) 巴 彦浩特市 Bā yàn Hào tè Shì Bayan Hot, capital of Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia / also written 巴 / 彥 / 浩 / 特 / 鎮 / |巴 / 彦 / 浩 / 特 / 镇 / [Ba1 yan4 Hao4 te4 Zhen4] 巴彦浩特镇 Bā yàn Hào tè Zhèn Bayan Hot, capital of Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia 恭 亲王奕䜣 Gōng qīn wáng Yì xīn Grand Prince Yixin (1833-1898), sixth son of Emperor Daoguang, prominent politician, diplomat and modernizer in late Qing 戊戌六君子 wù xū liù jūn zǐ 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 昭披耶帕康 Zhāo pī yē pà kāng Chao Phya Phra Klang, 18th century Thai politician and writer 普罗科菲夫 Pǔ luó kē fēi fū Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian composer 普里什蒂纳 Pǔ lǐ shí dì nà Pristina, capital of Kosovo 科 / 索 / 沃
有 苦说不出 yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū having unspeakable bitter suffering / (often used after 啞 / 巴 / 吃 / 黃 / 連 / |哑 / 巴 / 吃 / 黄 / 连 / [ya3 ba5 chi1 huang2 lian2]) 本因坊秀策 Běn yīn fāng Xiù cè Honinbo Shusaku (1829-1862), Japanese Go player 李卜克内西 Lǐ bo kè nèi xī Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900), political activist and founding member of the German Socialist Party SPD 柳 条沟事变 liǔ tiáo gōu shì biàn the Mukden or Manchurian railway incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria / also known as 9-18 incident 九 / 一 / 八 / 事 / 变
柴可夫斯基 Chái kě fū sī jī Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer 柴 科夫斯基 Chái kē fū sī jī Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin 没有劲头儿 méi yǒu jìn tóu r erhua variant of 沒 / 有 / 勁 / 頭 / |没 / 有 / 劲 / 头 / [mei2 you3 jin4 tou2] 压时间表 jiǎn yā shí jiān biǎo decompression schedule (diving) /
also called 減 / 壓 / 程 / 序 / | 汉城特
/ 压 / 程 / 序 / [jian3 ya1 cheng2 xu4]
市 Hàn chéng Tè bié shì Hanseong Metropolitan City, old
name for Seoul, capital of Korea / adopted new Chinese spelling 首 / 爾 / |首 / 尔 / in 2005 汉文帝刘恒 Hàn wén dì Liú héng Liu Heng (202-157 BC), the fourth Han emperor Han Wendi, reigned 180-157 BC 乌 拉特中旗 Wū lā tè zhōng qí Urat Center banner or Urdyn Dund khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 乌拉特前旗 Wū lā tè qián qí Urat Front banner or Urdyn Ö / mnö / d khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 乌拉特后旗 Wū lā tè hòu qí Urat Rear banner or Urdyn Xoit khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 乌拉特草原 Wū lā tè cǎo yuán Urat plain in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia 狮心王理查 Shī xīn wáng Lǐ chá Richard the Lionheart (1157-1199),
King Richard I of England 1189-1199 石 林风景区 Shí lín fēng jǐng qū Petrified forest scenic area in Shilin Yi autonomous county 石 / 林 / 彞 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 縣 / |石 / 林 / 彝 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 县 / [Shi2 lin2 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4] in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 范德瓦耳斯 Fàn dé Wǎ ěr sī van der Waals / Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923), Dutch physicist 索 尔仁尼琴 Suǒ ěr rén ní qín Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago 艾 森豪威尔 Aì sēn háo wēi ěr Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961 莫
儿王朝 Mò wò r wáng cháo Mughal or Mogul dynasty (1526-
1858) 莫 霍洛维奇 Mò huò luò wéi qí Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovič / ić / (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho 西红柿炒蛋 xī hóng shì chǎo dàn scrambled egg with fresh tomatoes
(south China) / same as 番 / 茄 / 炒 / 蛋 说文解字注 Shuō wén Jiě zì Zhù Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) by Duan Yucai 段 / 玉 / 裁 / [Duan4 Yu4 cai2] 里 希特霍芬 Lǐ xī tè huò fēn Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲 / 綢 / 之 / 路 / |丝 / 绸 / 之 / 路 长掌义县龙 cháng zhǎng Yì xiàn lóng Yixianosaurus longimanus, theropod dinosaur from Yi county 義 / 縣 / |义 / 县 / , Jinzhou 錦 / 州 / |锦 / 州 / , west Liaoning 普勒定律 Kāi pǔ lè dìng lu:4 Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1609, 1618) 闵科夫斯基 Mǐn kē fū sī jī Minkowski (name) / Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), German mathematician 阿 伏伽德罗 A1 fú jiā dé luó Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), Italian scientist, noted for contributions to molecular weight and molarity, the originator of Avogadro's number 阿 / 伏 / 伽 / 德 / 羅 / 數 / |阿 / 伏 / 伽 /德/罗/数
阿 拉善右旗 A1 lā shàn Yòu qí Alxa Right Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Baruun khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979) 阿拉善左旗 A1 lā shàn Zuǒ qí Alxa Left Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Zü / ü / n khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979) 阿尔茨海默 A1 ěr cí hǎi mò Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist 双 氯芬酸钠 shuāng lu:4 fēn suān nà diclofenac sodium, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as painkiller / also called voltaren 扶 / 他 / 林 额济纳地区 E2 jì nà Dì qū Ejin Banner in Alxa League 阿 / 拉 / 善 / 盟 / [A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 19691979) 马克斯威尔 mǎ kè sī wēi ěr James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) 黄果树瀑布 Huáng guǒ shù Pù bù Huangguoshu waterfalls, Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 神 风特攻队 shén fēng tè gōng duì kamikaze / abbr. for 神 / 風 / 特 /
別 / 攻 / 擊 / 隊 / |神 / 风 / 特 /
/ 攻 / 击 / 队 / [shen2 feng1 te4 bie2
gong1 ji1 dui4] 巴约讷条约 Treaty of Bayonne of 1866 / Treaty of Bayonne 杰克・伦敦 Jié kè Lún dūn Jack London (1876-1916), American writer 大 沽口炮台 Dà gū kǒu pào tái Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860) 安・海瑟薇 An1 · Hǎi sè wēi see 安 /
/ ・ / 海 / 瑟 / 薇 / [An1 ni2 · /
Hai3 se4 wei1] 巴 音满都呼 Bā yīn mǎn dū hū Bayan Mandahu, village in Bayan Nur 巴 / 彥 / 淖 / 爾 / |巴 / 彦 / 淖 / 尔 / [Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3], Inner Mongolia, noted for Cretaceous dinosaur fossils 斯文・海定 Sī wén · Hǎi dìng Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓 / 蘭 / |楼 / 兰 / also written 斯 / 文 / · / 赫 / 定 斯文・赫定 Sī wén · Hè dìng Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central
Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓 / 蘭 / |楼 / 兰 柯南・道尔 Kē nán · Dào ěr Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇 / 洛 / 克 / · / 福 / 爾 / 摩 / 斯 / |歇 / 洛 / 克 / · / 福 / 尔 / 摩 / 斯 海伦・凯勒 Hǎi lún · Kǎi lē Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker) 珍・奥斯汀 Zhēn · Aò sī tīng Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist / also written 简 / ・ / 奧 / 斯 / 汀 / |简 / ・ / 奥 / 斯 / 汀 / [Jian3 · / Ao4 si1 ting1] 马克・吐温 Mǎ kè · Tǔ wēn Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910), US writer, novelist and humorist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈 / 克 / 貝 / 利 / · / 芬 / 歷 / 險 / 記 / |哈 / 克 / 贝 / 利 / · / 芬 / 历 / &# 约翰・拉贝 Yuē hàn · Lā bèi John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period 威廉·福克纳 William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and poet
安
·夏菲维 see 安 /
/ ・ / 海 / 瑟 / 薇 / |安 /
/・/海/瑟/薇/
[An1 ni2 · / Hai3 se4 wei1] 捷克斯洛伐克 Jié kè Sī luò fá kè Republic of Czechoslovakia (19181992) 知 识就是力量 zhī shi jiù shì lì liang Knowledge is power, slogan originally due to Francis Bacon 弗 / 蘭 / 西 / 斯 / · / 培 / 根 / |弗 / 兰 / 西/斯/·/培/根 名不正言不顺 míng bu zhèng yán bu shùn unjustified and undeserving of such description / identity or status is unverified, or inconsistent in detail / unworthy of the title (or name), or reputation / no valid reason as justification / words without weight / cf 名 / 正 / 言 / 順/| 生 米做成熟饭 shēng mǐ zuò chéng shú fàn lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom) / fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. / also written 生 / 米 / 煮 / 成 / 熟 / 飯 / |生 / 米 / 煮/成/熟/饭 唵嘛
叭
哞 ǎn ma mī ba ní mōu Om Mani Padma Hum (sanskrit),
or Om mani padme hum (Tibetan), the Avalokiteshvara mantra / also
written 唵 / 嘛 /
/叭/
/哞/唵/嘛/
/叭/
/哞
中俄伊犁条约 Zhōng E2 Yī lí tiáo yuē Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights 中俄北京条约 Zhōng E2 Běi jīng tiáo yuē the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia 中 俄改订条约 Zhōng E2 gǎi dìng tiáo yuē Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights 五七干部学校 wǔ qī gàn bù xué xiào May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people into re-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution) / abbr. 五 / 七 / 幹 / 校 / |五 / 七 / 干 / 校 地球上的生物 dì qiú shàng de shēng wù Life on Earth, 1979 TV series by David Attenborough 大 / 衛 / · / 艾 / 登 / 堡 / |大 / 卫 / · / 艾 / 登 / 堡 / [Da4 wei4 · / Ai4 deng1 bao3] 埃尔朗根纲领 Aī ěr lǎng gēn gāng lǐng Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory 埃尔金大理石 Aī ěr jīn dà lǐ shí the Elgin Marbles, the Parthenon marbles stolen in 1801-1810 by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
塔 什库尔干乡 Tǎ shí kù ěr gān xiāng Taxkorgan township in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 天津会 议专条 Tiān jīn huì yì zhuān tiáo Tianjin agreement of 1885 between Li Hongzhang 李 / 鴻 / 章 / |李 / 鸿 / 章 / [Li3 Hong2 zhang1] and ITŌ / Hirobumi 伊 / 藤 / 博 / 文 / [Yi1 teng2 Bo2 wen2] to pull Qing and Japanese troops out of Korea 德雷福斯案件 Dé léi fú sī àn jiàn Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice 抗日救亡运动 kàng Rì jiù wáng yùn dòng the Save the Nation antiJapanese protest movement stemming from the Manchurian railway incident of 18th July 1931 九 / 一 / 八 / 事 / 變 / |九 / 一 / 八 / 事 / 变 拉兹莫夫斯基 Lā zī mò fū sī jī Razumovsky (name) / Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836), Russian diplomat 改 订伊犁条约 gǎi dìng Yī lí tiáo yuē Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
斯维尔德洛夫 Sī wéi ěr dé luò fū Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (18851919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza 江南四大才子 Jiāng nán sì dà cái zǐ Four great southern talents of the Ming, namely: Tang Bohu 唐 / 伯 / 虎 / , Zhu Zhishan 祝 / 枝 / 山 / , Wen Zhengming 文 / 徵 / 明 / |文 / 征 / 明 / and Xu Zhenqing 徐 / 禎 / 卿 / |徐 / 祯 / 卿 皇太
清太宗 Huáng tài jí Qīng tài zōng Hung Taiji (1592-1643),
eighth son of Nurhaci 努 / 爾 / 哈 / 赤 / |努 / 尔 / 哈 / 赤 / , reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後 / 金 / |后 / 金 / , then founded the Qing dynasty 大 / 清 / and re 维多利亚女王 Wéi duō lì yà nu:3 wáng Queen Victoria (reigned 18371901) 维尔斯特拉斯 Wéi ěr sī tè lā sī Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), German mathematician 罗巴切夫斯基 Luó bā qiè fū sī jī Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1793-1856), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry 那不勒斯王国 Nà bù lè sī wáng guó Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
里 瓦几亚条约 Lǐ wǎ jī yà tiáo yuē draft unequal treaty of Livadia (Crimea) of 1879 between Russia and Qing China, subsequently renegotiated 马尾水师学 堂 Mǎ wěi shuǐ shī xué táng Mawei River naval college, alternative name for Fuzhou naval college 福 / 州 / 船 / 政 / 學 / 堂 / |福 / 州 / 船 / 政 / 学 / 堂 / , set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty 马尔克奥雷利 Mǎ ěr kè Aò léi lì Marcus Aurelius (121-180) 基互补配对 jiǎn jī hù bǔ pèi duì complementary base pairing e.g. adenine A 腺 / 嘌 / 呤 / pairs with thymine T 胸 / 腺 / 嘧 / 啶 / in DNA 儒 勒・凡尔纳 Rú lè · Fán ěr nà Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories, author of Around the World in Eighty Days 八 / 十 / 天 / 环 / 绕 / 地 / 球 卡尔・马克思 Kǎ ěr · Mǎ kè sī Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism 威廉・福克纳 Wēi lián · Fú kè nà William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and poet 安
・夏菲维 An1 ní · Xià fēi wéi see 安 /
ni2 · / Hai3 se4 wei1]
/ ・ / 海 / 瑟 / 薇 / [An1
维克多・雨果 Wéi kè duō · Yǔ guǒ Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer 北 京广播学院 Běi jīng Guǎng bō Xué yuàn Beijing Broadcasting Institute, former name of 中 / 國 / 傳 / 媒 / 大 / 學 / |中 / 国 / 传 / 媒 / 大 / 学 / [Zhong1 guo2 Chuan2 mei2 Da4 xue2] 托马斯・哈代 Tuō mǎ sī · Hā dài Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author 黄果树大瀑布 Huáng guǒ shù Dà Pù bù Huangguoshu falls, Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 1866年巴约讷条约 Treaty of Bayonne of 1866 / Treaty of Bayonne 列 夫·托尔斯泰 Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰 / 爭 / 與 / 和 / 平 / |战 / 争 / 与 / 和 / 平 夏洛特·勃良特 Charlotte Brontë / (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë / sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡 / · / 愛 / |简 / · / 爱 尤里斯·伊文思 Joris Ivens (1898-1989), Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist
约瑟夫·斯大林 Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator 赫曼·麦尔维尔 Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白 / 鯨 / |白 / 鲸 / [bai2 jing1] 阿道司·赫胥黎 Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist and author of Brave new world 美 / 麗 / 新 / 世 / 界 / |美 / 丽 / 新 / 世 / 界 上海商务印书馆 Shàng hǎi Shāng wù yìn shū guǎn Commercial Press, Shanghai (from 1897) 鸡不着蚀把米 tōu jī bù zháo shí bǎ mǐ see
/雞/不/成/蝕/把/
米/|
/ 鸡 / 不 / 成 / 蚀 / 把 / 米 / [tou1 ji1 bu4 cheng2 shi2 ba3 mi3]
天冬
丙二肽酯 tiān dōng běn bǐng èr tài zhǐ aspartame C14H18N2O
(artificial sweetener) 屏 边苗族自治县 Píng biān miáo zú zì zhì xiàn Pingbian Mianzu autonomous county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture 紅 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彞 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / |红 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彝 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / [Hong2 he2 Ha1 n 新宾满族自治县 Xīn bīn mǎn zú zì zhì xiàn Xinbin Manchu autonomous county in Fushun 撫 / 順 / |抚 / 顺 / , Liaoning 普 尔热瓦尔斯基 Pǔ ěr rè wǎ ěr sī jī Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski
(1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870 / abbr. to 普 / 氏 河口瑶族自治县 Hé kǒu Yáo zú zì zhì xiàn Hekou Yaozu autonomous county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture 紅 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彞 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / |红 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彝 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / [Hong2 he2 Ha1 ni2 z 清原满族自治县 Qīng yuán Mǎn zú zì zhì xiàn Qingyuan Manchu autonomous county in Fushun 撫 / 順 / |抚 / 顺 / , Liaoning 石林彝族自治县 Shí lín Yí zú zì zhì xiàn Shilin Yi autonomous county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 圣 安地列斯断层 Shèng An1 de liè sī duàn céng San Andreas fault, California / also written 聖 / 安 / 德 / 列 / 斯 / 斷 / 層 / |圣 / 安 / 德 / 列 / 斯/断/层 陀 思妥也夫斯基 Tuó sī tuǒ yě fū sī jī Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪 / 與 / 罰 / |罪 / 与 / 罚 / [Zui4 yu3 Fa2] / also written 陀 / 思 / 妥 / 耶 / 夫 / 斯 / 基 / [Tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye1 fu 陀思妥耶夫斯基 Tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
(1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪 / 與 / 罰 / |罪 / 与 / 罚 / [Zui4 yu3 Fa2] 列夫・托尔斯 泰 Liè fū · Tuō ěr sī tài Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰 / 爭 / 與 / 和 / 平 / |战 / 争 / 与 / 和 / 平 古斯塔夫・多雷 Gǔ sī tǎ fū · Duō léi Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor 埃克托・柏辽兹 Aī kè tuō · Bó liáo zī Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique 夏 洛特・勃良特 Xià Luò tè · Bó liáng tè Charlotte Brontë / (18161855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë / sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡 / · / 愛 / |简 / · / 爱 尤里斯・伊文思 Yóu lǐ sī · Yī wén sī Joris Ivens (1898-1989), Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist 爱德华・达拉第 Aì dé huá · Dá lā dì É / douard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician 拿破仑・波拿巴 Ná pò lún · Bō ná bā Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821), Emperor of France 1804-1815 斯坦福・莱佛士 Sī tǎn fú · Lái fó shì Stamford Raffles (1781-1826),
British statesman and founder of the city of Singapore 查尔斯・狄更斯 Chá ěr sī · Dí gēng sī Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist 约瑟夫・斯大林 Yuē sè fū · Sī dà lín Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator 纳撒尼尔・霍桑 Nà sā ní ěr · Huò sāng Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) American novelist and short story writer 詹姆斯・乔伊斯 Zhān mǔ sī · Qiáo yī sī James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist writer, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake 赫曼・麦尔维尔 Hè màn · Mài ěr wéi ěr Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白 / 鯨 / |白 / 鲸 / [bai2 jing1] 阿 道司・赫胥黎 A1 dào sī · Hè xū lí Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist and author of Brave New World 美 / 麗 / 新 / 世 / 界 / |美 / 丽 / 新 / 世 / 界 / [Mei3 li4 Xin1 Shi4 jie4] 马克斯・普朗克 Mǎ kè sī · pǔ lǎng kè Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist who first postulated quantization of energy 埃德加·爱伦·坡 Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), American poet and novelist 法 兰西斯·斐迪南 Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-
1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I 罗伯特·佛洛斯特 Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet 二氯
乙酸钠 èr lu:4 běn àn běn yǐ suān nà diclofenac sodium
(non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as pain-killer) / also called voltaren 扶 / 他 / 林 塔什库尔干自治县 Tǎ shí kù ěr gān zì zhì xiàn Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 金平苗瑶
自治县 Jīn píng Miáo Yáo Dǎi zì zhì xiàn Jinping Miao,
Yao and Dai autonomous county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture 紅 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彞 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / |红 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彝 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / [Hong2 埃德加・爱伦・坡 Aī dé jiā · Aì lún · Pō Edgar Allen Poe (18091849), American poet and novelist 弗 里德里希・席勒 Fú lǐ dé lǐ xī · Xí lè Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
法兰西斯・ 斐迪南 Fǎ lán xī sī · Fěi dí nán Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I 罗伯特・佛洛斯特 Luó bó tè · Fú luò sī tè Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet 18 岁以下不征募运动 Zero Under 18 Campaign 哈克贝利·芬历险记 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 馬 / 克 / · / 吐 / 溫 / |马 / 克 / · / 吐 / 温 艾格尼丝·史沫特莱 Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist who reported on China, esp. the communist side 道 格拉斯·麦克阿瑟 General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war 寻甸回族彝族自治县 Xún diàn Huí zú Yí zú zì zhì xiàn Xundian Hui and Yi autonomous county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 欲 加之罪 何患无词 yù jiā zhī zuì , hé huàn wú cí If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左 / 傳 / |左 / 传 / ) / one can always trump up a charge against sb / Give a
dog a bad name, then hang him. / also written 慾 / 加 / 之 / 罪 / ,何 禄劝彝族苗族自治县 Lù quàn Yí zú Miáo zú zì zhì xiàn Luquan Yi and Miao autonomous county in Kunming 昆 / 明 / [Kun1 ming2], Yunnan 库 尔特・瓦尔德海姆 Kù ěr tè · Wǎ ěr dé hǎi mǔ Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, secretary-general of UN 1972-1981, president of Austria 1986-1992 艾格尼丝・史沫特莱 Aì gé ní sī · Shǐ mò tè lái Agnes Smedley (18921950), US journalist who reported on China, esp. the communist side
万 事皆备 只欠东风 wàn shì jiē bèi , zhǐ qiàn dōng fēng everything is ready, all we need is an east wind (idiom) / lacking only one tiny crucial item / also written 萬 / 事 / /
/备/
/備/
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道格拉斯・麦克阿瑟 Dào gé lā sī · Mài kè ā sè General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war 湘 西土家族苗族自治州 Xiāng xī Tǔ jiā zú Miáo zú zì zhì zhōu Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture in northwest Hunan, capital
Jishou 吉 / 首 紫云苗族 布依族自治县 Zǐ yún Miáo zú Bù yī zú zì zhì xiàn Ziyun Hmong and Buyei autonomous county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 镇
布依族苗族自治县 Zhèn níng Bù yī zú Miáo zú zì zhì xiàn
Zhenning Buyei and Hmong autonomous county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 布依族苗族自治县 Guān lǐng Bù yī zú Miáo zú zì zhì xiàn Guanling Buyei and Hmong autonomous county in Anshun 安 / 順 / |安 / 顺 / [An1 shun4], Guizhou 1899年和1907年《海牙公约》 Hague conventions of 1899 and 1907
哑 巴吃黄连 有苦说不出 yǎ ba chī huáng lián , yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering / sometimes written 啞 / 子 / 吃 / 黃 / 連 / ,有 / 苦 / 說 / 不 / 出 / |哑 / 子 / 吃 / 黄 / 连 / ,有 / 苦 / 说 / 不 / &# 塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县 Tǎ shí kù ěr gān Tǎ jí kè zì zhì xiàn Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom
nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀 / 什 / 地 / 區 / |喀 / 什 / 地 / 区 / [Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang 金平苗族瑶族
族自治县 Jīn píng Miáo zú Yáo zú Dǎi zú zì zhì xiàn
Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai autonomous county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture 紅 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彞 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / |红 / 河 / 哈 / 尼 / 族 / 彝 / 族 / 自 / 治 / 州 / [Hong2 路易・皮埃尔・阿尔都塞 Lù yì · Pí āi ěr · A1 ěr dōu sāi Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher 1899年和平解决国际争端公约 1899 Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes 黄 鼠狼给鸡拜年 没安好心 huáng shǔ láng gěi jī bài nián , méi ān hǎo xīn see 黃 / 鼠 / 狼 / 給 / 雞 / 拜 / 年 / |黄 / 鼠 / 狼 / 给 / 鸡 / 拜 / 年 / [huang2 shu3 lang2 gei3 ji1 bai4 nian2] 托马斯・斯特恩斯・艾略特 Tuō mǎ sī · Sì tè ēn sī · Aì lu:è tè T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), English poet 不结盟十八国纳米比亚问题委员会 Committee of 18 of the Nonaligned Countries on Namibia 安全理事会第1518(2003) 号决议所设委员会 Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003)
推 进执行公约十年战略规
和框架(2008-2018年); 10-year strategic
plan and framework to enhance the implementation of the Convention (2008-2018) / The Strategy
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