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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *后* | 后* | *后
empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler
HSK 1
(historical) form of address used by an emperor or imperial children for their mother (the empress or the empress dowager) / (historical) the empress dowager (as a title or form of reference)
Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name) / Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia
empress / imperial consort
HSK 7-9
Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖 / Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)
Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705
Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市|咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天
queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt
empress and imperial concubines or their residence
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)
coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈禧太后 ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
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
empress dowager
to confer a title on (an empress or a prince)
I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas)
second-rank concubine (title for an imperial concubine ranked two levels below the empress)
empress's throne / (fig.) first place in a feminine competition
Empress Dowager
empress
empress / imperial consort
to hold a court audience / to govern from the imperial throne (applies esp. to Empress Dowager or Regent)
Michiko, Japanese female given name / Empress Michiko of Japan (1934-)
empress
empress / refers to Tang empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天 (624-705), reigned 690-705
Zhang Yizhi (-705), Tang dynasty politician and favorite of Empress Wu Zetian 武則天|武则天
Empress Dowager Ci'an (1837-1881) of Qing
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曌* | 曌* | *曌
name invented for herself by Tang empress Wu Zetian 武則天|武则天
crown or tiara of a queen, empress or beauty pageant winner / first place in a women's competition
imperial empress / milady
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
(often used in traditional novels) term used by an emperor to address the empress
first-rank concubine (title for an imperial concubine ranked one level below the empress)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫄* | 嫄* | *嫄
name of an empress
Wu Shihuo (7th century), father of Tang empress Wu Zetian 武則天|武则天
(archaic) empress's body / empress's physical condition
An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后, executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后
Empress Xiaoshengxian (1693-1777), consort of Emperor Yongzheng 雍正 and mother of Emperor Qianlong 乾隆


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