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  *主* | 主* | *主
owner / master / host / individual or party concerned / God / Lord / main / to indicate or signify / trump card (in card games)
HSK 7-9
lord / nobility / nobleman / noblewoman / aristocrat / aristocracy
HSK 7-9
Amitabha Buddha / the Buddha of the Western paradise / may the lord Buddha preserve us! / merciful Buddha!
Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
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  *君* | 君* | *君
monarch / lord / gentleman / ruler
Lord's Prayer
feudal lord; suzerain; overlord
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  *霸* | 霸* | *霸
hegemon / tyrant / lord / feudal chief / to rule by force / to usurp / (in modern advertising) master
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
Lord Guan (i.e. 關羽|关羽)
goodness gracious! / oh my lord!
(respectful) lord / master / (coll.) maternal grandfather
drug lord
lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband
Lord of profound heaven, major Daoist deity / aka Black Tortoise 玄武 or Black heavenly emperor 玄天上帝
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 托爾金|托尔金
lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom) / fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it / ostensible fondness of sth one really fears
Lord Bao or Judge Bao, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty
Nirvana (in Buddhist scripture) / Lord Brahma (the Hindu Creator)
heaven / lord of heaven
(idiom) dead drunk; plastered; as drunk as a lord
Marquis (highest Han dynasty ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households) / high nobles
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒
Lord of the East, the sun God of Chinese mythology
Lord (name)
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
The Book of Lord Shang, Legalist text of the 4th century BC
birth name of Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
Eliakim (name, Hebrew: God will raise up) / Eliakim, servant of the Lord in Isaiah 22:20 / Eliakim, son of Abiud and father of Azor in Matthew 1:13
Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
Lord (UK hereditary nobility) / UK life peer
(bird species of China) Lord Derby's parakeet (Psittacula derbiana)
the Lord's Day / Sunday
ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households / also translated as Marquis
Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.
Saraswati (the Hindu goddess of wisdom and arts and consort of Lord Brahma)
Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson) / Kelvin (temperature scale)
lit. to wield the broadsword in the presence of Lord Guan (idiom) / fig. to make a fool of oneself by showing off in front of an expert
my lord (respectful form of address for an official or a magistrate in imperial China)
the lord of Lu (who declined to employ Confucius)


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