|  |  | meaning (implicit in a phrase)  / implied meaning  / hidden meaning  / hint  / connotation  | HSK 4 | 
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|  |  | duty; obligation (CL:項|项 )  /  volunteer (work etc)  | HSK 4 | 
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|  |  | sense  /  meaning  /  significance  /  importance  / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 | 
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|  |  | justice  / righteousness  / just  / righteous  | HSK 5 | 
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|  |  | definition  / to define  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | name  / titular  / nominal  / in name  / ostensible purpose  | HSK 6 | 
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|  |  | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中 , one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备  Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉  as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操  Wei 魏  as villains  |  | 
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|  |  | chivalrous  / chivalry  / knight-errantry  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | content  / meaning  / connotation  / implication  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | capitalism  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | imperialism  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | Xinyi or Hsinyi District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市 , Taiwan  /  Xinyi or Hsinyi District of Keelung City 基隆市 , Taiwan  /  Xinyi or Hsinyi Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县 , central Taiwan  |  | 
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|  |  | good faith  / honor  / trust and justice  |  | 
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|  |  | Fu Zuoyi (1895–1974), Chinese general and politician, Nationalist commander who negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beiping (Beijing) to the Communists in 1949, and later held senior posts in the PRC government  |  | 
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|  |  | (Tw) Italy  |  | 
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|  |  | impressionism  |  | 
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|  |  | optimism  |  | 
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|  |  | protectionism  |  | 
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|  |  | lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper  / right and unalterable  / a matter of course  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | righteous man  |  | 
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|  |  | feminism  |  | 
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|  |  | internationalism  |  | 
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|  |  | terrorism  |  | 
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|  |  | absolutism  / despotism  / autocracy  |  | 
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|  |  | pacifism  |  | 
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|  |  | antonym  |  | 
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|  |  | synonymous  |  | 
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|  |  | humanism  / humanitarian (aid)  |  | 
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|  |  | adopted son  |  | 
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|  |  | historic significance  |  | 
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|  |  | surname Yi  /  (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利 )  |  | 
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|  |  | justice  / righteousness  / meaning  / foster (father etc)  / adopted  / artificial (tooth, limb etc)  / relationship  / friendship  |  | 
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|  |  | broad sense  / general sense  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | -ism  / ideology  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | benefit performance  / charity show  |  | 
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|  |  | to define  |  | 
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|  |  | humanism  |  | 
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|  |  | volunteer worker  / volunteer work  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | extreme benevolence, utmost duty (idiom); meticulous virtue and attention to duty  |  | 
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|  |  | communism  |  | 
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|  |  | collectivism  |  | 
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|  |  | synonym  |  | 
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|  |  | egoism  |  | 
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|  |  | injustice  |  | 
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|  |  | bureaucracy  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | pragmatism  |  | 
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|  |  | meritocracy  |  | 
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|  |  | Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王  overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc  |  | 
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|  |  | to uphold justice  / to be loyal (to one's friends)  / to stick by  |  | 
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|  |  | conservatism  |  | 
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|  |  | civil obligation  / a citizen's duty  |  | 
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|  |  | (Tw) spaghetti; pasta  |  | 
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|  |  | general relativity  / Einstein's theory of gravity  |  | 
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|  |  | righteousness  |  | 
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|  |  | militarism  |  | 
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|  |  | socialism  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | egalitarianism  |  | 
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|  |  | March of the Volunteer Army (PRC National Anthem)  |  | 
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|  |  | (idiom) to speak forcibly out of a sense of righteousness  |  | 
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|  |  | materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality  |  | 
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|  |  | separatism  |  | 
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|  |  | Boxer Rebellion (1900–1901), a peasant uprising that attempted to expel all foreigners from China, eventually suppressed by an international coalition  |  | 
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|  |  | benevolence and righteousness  |  | 
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|  |  | affable and even-tempered  |  | 
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|  |  | the attitude of mechanically borrowing (ideas etc)  |  | 
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|  |  | Futurism (artistic and social movement of the 20th century)  |  | 
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|  |  | near-synonym  |  | 
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|  |  | unilateralism  |  | 
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|  |  | Maoism  |  | 
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|  |  | artificial tooth  |  | 
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|  |  | polyseme  / polysemous word  |  | 
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|  |  | opportunism  / pragmatism  |  | 
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|  |  | cynicism  |  | 
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|  |  | progressivism  |  | 
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|  |  | Marxism-Leninism  |  | 
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|  |  | to make sense  / to have meaning  / to have significance  / meaningful  / significant  / worthwhile  / important  / interesting  |  | 
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|  |  | philosophy of idealism, the doctrine that external reality is a product of consciousness  |  | 
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|  |  | People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)  |  | 
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|  |  | justice is to be found everywhere (idiom)  |  | 
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|  |  | traffic auxiliary police (Tw)  |  | 
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|  |  | derogatory sense  / negative connotation  |  | 
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|  |  | Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War  |  | 
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|  |  | not to be shirked without dishonor (idiom)  / incumbent  / bounden (duty)  |  | 
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|  |  | terrorist  |  | 
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|  |  | utilitarianism  |  | 
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|  |  | patriotism  |  | 
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|  |  | masculism  |  | 
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|  |  | policy of nonresistance  |  | 
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|  |  | existentialism  |  | 
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|  |  | nationalism  /  national self-determination  /  principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山  Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义  (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers)  /  racism  |  | 
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|  |  | vegetarianism  |  | 
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|  |  | free school (old)  |  | 
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|  |  | to hold a charity bazaar; to sell goods for a good cause  |  | 
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|  |  | loyal and righteous  / fealty  / loyalty  |  | 
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|  |  | honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back  / no surrender  / to pursue justice with no second thoughts  |  | 
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|  |  | heterosexism  |  | 
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|  |  | to provide free medical treatment  / to provide medical treatment, donating consultation fees to a charitable cause  |  | 
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|  |  | sense (of a word)  |  | 
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|  |  | (semantics) connotative meaning; connotation  |  | 
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|  |  | feudalism  |  | 
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