| | king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great | HSK 4 |
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| | kingdom / realm | HSK 7-9 |
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| | trump card | HSK 7-9 |
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| | United Kingdom 聯合王國|联合王国 / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland / abbr. for England 英格蘭|英格兰 | |
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| | surname Wang | |
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| | (literary) (of a monarch) to reign over (a kingdom) | |
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| | Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周, and is also known as the "God of Dreams" | |
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| | throne | |
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| | queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt | |
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| | queen | |
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| | prince's mansion | |
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| | Wangfujing neighborhood of central Beijing, famous for shopping | |
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| | Poseidon, Greek god of the sea / Neptune, Roman god of the sea / Aquaman, DC comic book superhero / (slang) womanizer / player | |
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| | devil king / evil person | |
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| | dynasty | |
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| | the peaches of immortality of Goddess Xi Wangmu 西王母 | |
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| | regent / monarch | |
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| | flat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach) / the peaches of immortality kept by Xi Wangmu 西王母 | |
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| | abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | prince / marquis / nobleman | |
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| | prince | |
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| | royal family / royal household | |
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| | hegemon / overlord / despot | |
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| | Wanglaoji (beverage brand) | |
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| | the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion | |
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| | 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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| | Dragon King (mythology) | |
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| | boxing champion | |
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| | Sakyamuni | |
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| | (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell / (fig.) cruel and tyrannical person | |
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| | aristocracy | |
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| | crown | |
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| | Uranus (planet) | |
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| | sovereign king | |
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| | Gyuumao | |
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| | the king of hell | |
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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | chess champion | |
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| | the Way of the King / statecraft / benevolent rule / virtuous as opposed to the Way of Hegemon 霸道 | |
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| | king / magnate / person having expert skill in something | |
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| | robber baron (in opera, old stories) / magnate | |
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| | Zhou, pejorative name given posthumously to the last king of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 (the name refers to a crupper 紂|纣, the piece of horse tack most likely to be soiled by the horse) | |
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| | Tengwang Tower in Nanchang, Jiangxi / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓|黄鹤楼 in Wuhan, Hubei | |
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| | tortoise / cuckold / (old) male owner of a brothel / pimp | |
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| | Neptune (planet) | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | Wangyi District of Tongchuan City 銅川市|铜川市, Shaanxi | |
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| | Duracell (US brand of batteries etc) | |
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| | princes and dukes / aristocrat | |
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| | the Way of the Hegemon / abbr. for 霸王之道 / despotic rule / rule by might / evil as opposed to the Way of the King 王道 / overbearing / tyranny / (of liquor, medicine etc) strong / potent | |
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| | The Conqueror Bids Farewell to His Favorite Concubine (tragic opera by Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳) / Farewell My Concubine (1993 film by Chen Kaige) | |
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| | princess (in Europe) | |
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| | bachelor (lit. fifth child of the Wangs) | |
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| | King Lear, 1605 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚 | |
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| | queen bee | |
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| | used in names, e.g. 龍王辿|龙王辿 Longwang Chan, a place in Shaanxi Province / (literary) (of one's walking pace) slow | |
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| | children of the nobility | |
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| | royalty / royal power | |
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| | title of king / kingship | |
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| | crown prince | |
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| | another name for 西王母, Queen Mother of the West | |
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| | (literary) paternal grandmother | |
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| | the Jade lake on Mount Kunlun, residence of Xi Wangmu 西王母 | |
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| | lit. helping tyrant Zhou 商紂王|商纣王 in his oppression (idiom) / fig. to take the side of the evildoer / giving succor to the enemy | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Baosi, concubine of King You of Zhou 周幽王 and one of the famous Chinese beauties | |
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| | imperial palace | |
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| | Siziwang banner or Dörvön-xüüxed khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Wang Junxia (1973-), Chinese long-distance runner | |
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| | Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan, a recent Han dynasty archaeological site | |
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| | cowherb (Vaccaria segetalis) / cowherb seeds (used in TCM) | |
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| | Yuwangtai district of Kaifeng city 開封市|开封市, Henan | |
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| | Wangyi District of Tongchuan City 銅川市|铜川市, Shaanxi | |
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| | Aqua regia | |
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| | Yellow Peril, political novel by Wang Lixiong 王力雄 | |
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| | Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645) | |
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| | devil incarnate (idiom) / fiend in human form | |
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| | Wang code, same as 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | to defeat the enemy by capturing their chief (idiom) | |
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| | every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans | |
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| | royal jelly | |
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| | Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD) | |
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| | form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire | |
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| | Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956 | |
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| | princely | |
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| | sage ruler | |
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| | Wang Nan (1978-), female PRC table tennis player, Olympic medalist | |
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| | Li Si, name for an unspecified person, second of a series of three: 張三|张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry | |
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| | (coll.) person who makes people laugh; funny guy | |
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| | sage kings | |
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| | Pluto (dwarf planet) | |
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| | First book of Kings | |
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| | great calligraphy master / the Sage of Calligraphy, traditional reference to Wang Xizhi 王羲之 (303-361) | |
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| | former sovereigns | |
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| | Wang Meng (325-375), prime minister to Fu Jian 苻堅|苻坚 of Former Qin 前秦 | |
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| | Wang Can (177-217), poet, generally regarded as the most brilliant of "the seven masters of Jian'an" 建安 | |
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| | You Meng, famous court jester during the reign of King Zhuang of Chu 楚莊王|楚庄王, known for his intelligence and sharp tongue | |
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