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(used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)
HSK 7-9
empire / imperial
HSK 7-9
Ottoman (empire)
Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
Han Dynasty term for the Roman Empire 羅馬帝國|罗马帝国
Xiongnu, a people of the Eastern Steppe who created an empire that flourished around the time of the Qin and Han dynasties
Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China / Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国, whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝
Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire
Byzantium / Byzantine or Eastern Roman empire (395-1453)
fall (of an empire)
former southernmost province of the Chinese Empire, now northern Vietnam
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ancient name for east Roman empire
Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)
auspicious sculpted animal, usu. a unicorn or deer with a long tail / possession of the empire
Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD)
to inspire awe throughout the empire (idiom)
Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867–1918
(derog.) the Chinese Communist regime (variant of 天朝 Celestial Empire, invented to circumvent censorship)
Russian empire (1546-1917)
the overall state of affairs in the world (esp. in political or historical terms); the prevailing trend across the nation or empire
Empire State Building (New York City)
the Holy Roman Empire (history)
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿|近卫文麿 in 1938
Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon
Umayyad Empire (661-750, in Iberia -1031), successor of the Rashidun caliphate
Han dynasty name for countries in far West / may refer to Silk Road states or Alexandria or the Roman empire
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453)
Great Qing Empire (1644-1911)
Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC / Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒玫
(idiom) to re-establish order throughout the empire
History of the Liao Dynasty, 13th-century book on the history of the Khitan Empire (916-1125)
Ottoman Empire (Tw)
Korean Empire, from fall of Joseon dynasty in 1897 to annexation by Japan in 1910
old estate / former empire / former occupation
Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire
Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad 穆罕默德 in 632)
Outer Manchuria (the historical name for the part of Russia near northeastern China that was ceded to the Russian Empire in the mid-19th century)
British Empire
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC
Empire State Building
Saracen Empire (medieval European name for Arab empire)
Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)
Achaemenid Dynasty, (559–330 BC), ancient Iranian dynasty whose kings ruled the Achaemenid Empire


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