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  *请* | 请* | *请
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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  *轻* | 轻* | *轻
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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  *氢* | 氢* | *氢
hydrogen (chemistry)
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  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parents-in-law of one's offspring
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  *青* | 青* | *青
abbr. for 青海, Qinghai Province
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  *庆* | 庆* | *庆
to celebrate
lesson plan / teaching plan / a "missionary case" (a dispute over Christian missionaries during the late Qing)
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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)
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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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  *旗* | 旗* | *旗
banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县 county / CL:
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)
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  *氰* | 氰* | *氰
cyanogen (CN)2 / ethanedinitrile / Taiwan pr. [qing1]
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
given name of Qing Emperor Xianfeng 咸豐|咸丰
Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan)
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  *清* | 清* | *清
Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644-1911) / surname Qing
academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
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  *檠* | 檠* | *檠
instrument for straightening bows
Nalan Xingde (1655-1685), Manchu ethnic Qing dynasty poet
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王, personal name 弘曆|弘历, reigned 1735-1799
the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties
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  *罄* | 罄* | *罄
to use up / to exhaust / empty
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  *鲭* | 鲭* | *鲭
mackerel
princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty)
the Qing Dynasty name for the coastal provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong
reign name of Qing emperor (1821-1850)
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
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
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  *庼* | 庼* | *庼
room / small hall
Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735)
provincial imperial examination graduate who ranked 1st in metropolitan examination (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China
Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China
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  *宬* | 宬* | *宬
(literary) archive room; library (esp. in the imperial palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties)
prefectural magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
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  *箐* | 箐* | *箐
to draw a bamboo bow or crossbow
navy (in Qing times)
Shengzu, temple name of the second Qing emperor, known as the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722) / cf. 康熙
Qing county in Cangzhou 滄州|沧州, Hebei
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
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  *顷* | 顷* | *顷
unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩 or 6.67 hectares / a short while / a little while ago / circa. (for approximate dates)
military aircraft / secret plan / Privy Council during the Qing dynasty
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  *磬* | 磬* | *磬
chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone
Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty
Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820), seventh Qing emperor, personal name 顒琰|颙琰, reigned 1796-1820
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  *苘* | 苘* | *苘
Indian mallow (Abutilon theophrasti) / Indian hemp (cannabis)
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  *勍* | 勍* | *勍
violent / strong
(old) commanding general / commander-in-chief / (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general (provincial military governor) 總督|总督
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
border region / regional general acting as governor (in Ming and Qing times)
History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉|张廷玉 in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls
Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1625-1644), a secondary palace in subsequent years, now a museum
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (abbr. for 格物致知) / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
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  *蜻* | 蜻* | *蜻
see 蜻蜓
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  *圊* | 圊* | *圊
restroom / latrine
inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
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
reign name of second Qing emperor (1644-1662)
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
to pay respects / to wish good health / in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千)
Qing'an county in Suihua 綏化|绥化, Heilongjiang
the Qing army
capital of prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) / prefectural seat
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
verse or song form from Yuan, Ming and Qing
Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金|后金 and Qing Dynasty
reign name (1909-1911) of the last Qing emperor Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪
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  *碃* | 碃* | *碃
(stone)
Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金|后金 from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty
Hart or Herd (name) / Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office
the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet
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
in Qing dynasty, Manchurian word for wife
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)
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations
the Qing court (as government of China)
the local commander / provincial governor (in Qing and Ming times)
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
foreign affairs (in Qing times) / foreign learning
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
near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)
Later Jin dynasty (from 1616-) / Manchu Khanate or kingdom that took over as Qing dynasty in 1644
xiaolian, two examination subjects in Han, later a single subject in Ming and Qing / successful second degree candidate
buttoned mandarin jacket of the Qing dynasty 清代 (1644-1911)
Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝 / late Qing
(Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards / (also an official title in earlier dynasties)
the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing
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  *㯳* | 㯳* | *㯳
variant of
reign name of penultimate Qing emperor Guangxu or Guang-hsu (1875-1908)
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers

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