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HSK
century / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
20th century
memorial badge / souvenir badge / CL:
Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西 ethnic group
creation myth
world record
medieval / Middle Ages
21st century
to break a record / record-breaking
to be of an advanced age; to be old / an advanced age
Serf Liberation Day (PRC)
Jurassic (geological period 205-140m years ago)
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
newsreel / documentary (film or TV program) / CL:
HSK 7-9
to be getting on in years / to be of the older generation
New Age (movement)
new era; new epoch
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), organization within the CCP which investigates corruption and other wrongdoing among Party cadres / abbr. for 中共中央紀律檢查委員會|中共中央纪律检查委员会
to commemorate; to honor the memory of / memento; keepsake; souvenir
HSK 3
examination discipline / (Tw) performance assessment and discipline (abbr. for 考核 + 紀律|纪律), used in reference to internal review and oversight functions within political parties
to set a new record
the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime
to break the rules / to break discipline
souvenir; memento
minutes / written summary of a meeting
Sinian (c. 800-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history
HSK 3
Epoch Times, US newspaper
discipline
HSK 4
to manage (a business) / manager / broker
lack of discipline / to break a rule / to violate discipline / to breach a principle
commemorative album; autograph book; (graduation) yearbook
discipline inspection commission
Ediacaran period (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
calendar era / epoch
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
(geology) the Holocene Epoch
Memorial Day (American holiday)
Cambrian geological period (541-485.4 million years ago)
stockbroker
memorial hall / commemorative museum
HSK 7-9
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
First book of Kings
Qu Yuan Memorial Hall in Zigui county 秭歸縣|秭归县, Hubei, built in 1982 and a major tourist attraction since then
record of actual events / documentary (factual rather than fictional)
HSK 7-9
trophy
lit. to break the law and violate the rules (idiom) / fig. misconduct
with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules / in complete disorder
Bamboo Annals, early chronicle of Chinese ancient history, written c. 300 BC
history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCP
Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
the Cambrian explosion
Carboniferous (geological period 354-292m years ago)
wedding anniversary
Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago) / also written 二疊紀|二叠纪
law and order / rules and discipline
memorial
law and order
Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago)
rules for political staff / political discipline
before the common era (BC)
monument
HSK 7-9
end of the century
fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
commemorative postage stamp
Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago)
Devonian (geological period 417-354m years ago)
broker / middleman / agent / manager
Monument to the People's Heroes, at Tiananmen Square
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surname Ji / also pr. [Ji4]
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order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle
(of a person) to get old
to record and preserve
final years of the century
Memorial Day (American holiday)
mockumentary
Ordovician (geological period 495-440m years ago)
third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
the Cambrian explosion
to number the years / calendar era / annals / chronicle
memorial hall / mausoleum
disciplinary inspection / to inspect another's discipline
Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago) / also written 三疊紀|三叠纪
pre-Cambrian, geological period before c. 540m years ago
biographic sketch of an emperor
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, writer and artist
standard of behavior / moral standards / discipline
Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago)
Cang Jize or Tseng Chi-tse (1839-1890), pioneer diplomat of late Qing, serve as imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK, France and Russia
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
day of commemoration / memorial day
HSK 7-9
Silurian (geological period 440-417m years ago)
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
Second book of Kings
Epoch Times, US newspaper
variant of 記錄|记录 (but in Taiwan, not for the verb sense "to record")
HSK 3


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