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  *請* | 請* | *請
to ask / to invite / please (do sth) / to treat (to a meal etc) / to request
HSK 1
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  *晴* | 晴* | *晴
clear / fine (weather)
HSK 2
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  *輕* | 輕* | *輕
light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage
HSK 2
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  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
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  *清* | 清* | *清
(of water etc) clear; clean / quiet; still / pure; uncorrupted / clear; distinct / to clear; to settle (accounts)
HSK 6
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  *情* | 情* | *情
(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion / (bound form) situation; condition
HSK 7-9
to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty
HSK 7-9
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  *青* | 青* | *青
abbr. for 青海, Qinghai Province
inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875)
Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
the Qianlong era / Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王, personal name 弘曆|弘历, reigned 1735-1799
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  *清* | 清* | *清
Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644-1911) / surname Qing
Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan)
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  *慶* | 慶* | *慶
to celebrate
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  *卿* | 卿* | *卿
high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old)
academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
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  *旗* | 旗* | *旗
banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县 county / CL:
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  *箐* | 箐* | *箐
to draw a bamboo bow or crossbow
Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty
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  *親* | 親* | *親
parents-in-law of one's offspring
princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty)
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  *傾* | 傾* | *傾
to overturn / to collapse / to lean / to tend / to incline / to pour out
old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949) / (in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal
capital of prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) / prefectural seat
special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia
The Strange State of the World Witnessed Over 20 Years, novel by late Qing novelist Wu Jianren 吳趼人|吴趼人
the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties
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  *氫* | 氫* | *氫
hydrogen (chemistry)
south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
Three feudatories rebellion against Qing 1673-1681 during the reign of Kangxi
Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
Hart or Herd (name) / Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office
reign name of Qing emperor (1821-1850)
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  *府* | 府* | *府
seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
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  *罄* | 罄* | *罄
to use up / to exhaust / empty
The Travels of Lao Tsan, novel by late Qing novelist Liu E 劉鶚|刘鹗
reign name of penultimate Qing emperor Guangxu or Guang-hsu (1875-1908)
Siku Quanshu (collection of books compiled during Qing dynasty)
School of Principle / Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥|程颢, Cheng Yi 程頤|程颐 and Zhu Xi 朱熹)
Qing dynasty person
Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times)
the local commander / provincial governor (in Qing and Ming times)
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  *擎* | 擎* | *擎
to raise; to hold up; to lift up
modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th to early 20th century)
sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820), seventh Qing emperor, personal name 顒琰|颙琰, reigned 1796-1820
county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
Wu Sangui (1612-1678), Chinese general who let the Manchus into China and helped them establish the Qing Dynasty, later leading a revolt against Qing in an effort to start his own dynasty
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  *廎* | 廎* | *廎
room / small hall
to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学 / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
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  *頃* | 頃* | *頃
unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩 or 6.67 hectares / a short while / a little while ago / circa. (for approximate dates)
eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties
boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer
Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels
Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, now the site of Nanhaizi Park in the south of Beijing
Xianfeng (1831-1861), reign name of Qing emperor, reigned from 1850-1861 / Xianfeng County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
Rehe, Qing dynasty province abolished in 1955 and divided among Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia / refers to the Qing imperial resort at Chengde / see also 避暑山莊|避暑山庄 (history)
reign name (1909-1911) of the last Qing emperor Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪
semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
to pay respects / to wish good health / in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千)
Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty
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  *凊* | 凊* | *凊
(literary) cold; cool; chilly
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 reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor / posthumous name 清太宗
Office of Military and Political Affairs (Qing Dynasty)
Aisin Gioro, family name of the Manchu emperors of the Qing dynasty
triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), Jesuit missionary and artist who served as a painter in the Qing court for 50 years
provincial imperial examination graduate who ranked 1st in metropolitan examination (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康
candidate who ranked 1st in imperial examination on prefecture or county level (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
Nalan Xingde (1655-1685), Manchu ethnic Qing dynasty poet
treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers
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  *殑* | 殑* | *殑
swoon
Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, sometimes listed as number 25 or 26 of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Zhao Erxun 趙爾巽|赵尔巽 in 1927 during the Northern Warlords period, 536 scrolls
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
the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet
lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
(Ming and Qing dynasties) daotai (title for an official responsible for supervising a circuit ), aka taotai and circuit intendant
seat of prefectural government (from Tang to Qing times)
Liu Qing (1916-1978), writer
Manchu household register (during the Qing Dynasty)
Shen Baozhen (1820-1879), Qing Minister of the Navy, founded Fuzhou Naval College 船政學堂|船政学堂 in 1866
Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia
Zhou Ji (1781-1839), Qing writer and poet
Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition
low-level officer of the army from the Ming to the mid Qing Dynasty
Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
Ai Qing (1910-1996), Chinese poet
Six Records of a Floating Life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复, published 1808
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
security measures (esp. border security) / official seal (esp. military seal during Qing and Ming times)
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
The Drunken Beauty, Qing Dynasty Beijing opera

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