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  *保* | 保* | *保
to defend; to protect; to keep / to guarantee; to ensure / (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system
HSK 3
domestic / internal (to a country) / civil
HSK 3
civil servant; public servant
HSK 3
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  *甲* | 甲* | *甲
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
HSK 5
civil police / PRC police / abbr. for 人民警察
HSK 6
civil service / public office / government job
HSK 7-9
ancestral hometown / original domicile (and civil registration)
HSK 7-9
civil court
grade separation (civil engineering)
civil aviation
civil code
defensive structure / military fortifications / (Tw) construction works / civil engineering works
(civil engineering) roadbed
building / construction / civil engineering
civilian post (as opposed to military) / civil service / administration
civil and military
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
civil law
civil case / agricultural affairs / civil
Occupy Central, Hong Kong civil disobedience movement (September 2014 -)
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination / palace graduate
civil war
Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) of the PRC
internal disorder / civil strife / civil unrest
civil transport / movement aimed at the masses / democracy movement (abbr.)
parish / civil parish
civil liberties
civil and military officials
to go by a roundabout route / to take a detour / (medicine or civil engineering) bypass
metropolitan civil service examination (held triennially in spring in imperial times) / Crown Prince's chambers / by extension, the Crown Prince
the civil service system / the bureaucratic system
(army) commander-in-chief (archaic) / provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)
(civil engineering) cutting (for a railway or highway)
metropolitan examination (imperial civil service examination)
civil engineering / same as 土木工程
mass uprising / popular revolt / civil commotion
metropolitan civil service examination (held triennially in spring in imperial times)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鹇* | 鹇* | *鹇
silver pheasant (Phasianus nycthemerus) / silver pheasant badge worn by civil officials of the 5th grade
fundamental civil rights
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
to sit for a civil service exam
(old) first place in civil service examinations at three levels: provincial 解元, metropolitan 會元|会元 and palace 狀元|状元
civil engineering
Wang Dun (266-324), powerful general of Jin dynasty and brother of civil official Wang Dao 王導|王导, subsequently rebellious warlord 322-324
to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)
The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems
communist bandit (i.e. PLA soldier (during the civil war) or Chinese communist (Tw))
civil corps / militia
lit. naked wedding / no-frills civil wedding ceremony lacking a material foundation: no car, house, reception, rings, or honeymoon
common plea / civil appeal (as opposed to criminal case)
Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
civil liability (law)
civil servant
Chinese Civil War (1927–1949)
civil society (law)
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)
Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
civil administration
army, civil service and education / all branches of state employment
civil rights
civil society
provincial department of civil affairs
civil war / internal struggle
civil explosives
civil police / PRC police
red bandit (i.e. PLA soldier (during the civil war) or Chinese communist (Tw))
to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
Bureau of Civil Affairs
civil rights activist
civil service
civil rights / citizenship rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
civil obligation / a citizen's duty
Beijing Nanyuan Airport, military air base and secondary civil airport of Beijing
talent in both military and civil field (idiom)
emergency aid committee (of PRC Ministry of Civil Affairs 民政部)
Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922)
democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state)
Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
(coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home
(Tw) pension (for retired military, civil service and teaching personnel)
to value letters and belittle arms (idiom); to stress civil matters and neglect the military / to prefer the pen to the sword
Ministry of Civil Service, Taiwan
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist


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