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HSK
sense / meaning / significance / importance / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
duty; obligation (CL:項|项) / volunteer (work etc)
HSK 4
meaning (implicit in a phrase) / implied meaning / hidden meaning / hint / connotation
HSK 4
justice / righteousness / just / righteous
HSK 5
name / titular / nominal / in name / ostensible purpose
HSK 6
content / meaning / connotation / implication
HSK 7-9
bureaucracy
HSK 7-9
definition / to define
HSK 7-9
volunteer worker / volunteer work
HSK 7-9
broad sense / general sense
HSK 7-9
chivalrous / chivalry / knight-errantry
HSK 7-9
capitalism
HSK 7-9
(idiom, from the Analects) (usu. of a passer-by who comes across a critical situation) to step in and help; to take brave or selfless action
HSK 7-9
imperialism
HSK 7-9
completely lacking any feeling or sense of justice (idiom); cold and ruthless
HSK 7-9
-ism / ideology
HSK 7-9
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
HSK 7-9
socialism
HSK 7-9
colonialism
righteous man
righteous indignation / moral indignation
neocolonialism
meaning of a character
heroically sacrificing one's life (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *義* | 義* | *義
surname Yi / (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *義* | 義* | *義
justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship
mercantilism
feelings of gratitude and loyalty
Marxism
Oath of the Peach Garden, sworn by Liu Bei 劉備|刘备, Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞 and Guan Yu 關羽|关羽 at the start of the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
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
cliquism / small-group mentality
character with opposite meaning / antonym / opposite characters
progressivism
Sanyi township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
pacifism
supremely honorable and righteous
money worship
revisionism
antonymous / (genetic) antisense
utilitarianism
Chiayi, a city and county in west Taiwan
(computing) escape sequence
Chiayi city in central Taiwan
not to have any meaning / meaningless
hegemonism
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
good faith / honor / trust and justice
Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty
Jintian Uprising
mysticism
Jiayi or Chiayi County in west Taiwan
Sinocentrism
user-defined
synonym
idealism
altruism
(Tw) Italy
the meaning of sth / an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases / definition / an interpretation (of doctrine) / religious doctrine
regionalism / favoring one's local region
original meaning / literal sense
communism
dogmatism
Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), Guomindang general, subsequently PRC top general and politician
totalitarianism
separatism
absolutism / despotism / autocracy
righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing
interpretation of the divinatory trigrams
creed / doctrine / teachings
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
Shangyi county in Zhangjiakou 張家口|张家口, Hebei
cynicism
to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme
socialist
Darwinism
special relativity
realism
as the name implies
to provide free medical treatment / to provide medical treatment, donating consultation fees to a charitable cause
vigilante / volunteer (police)
Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist
democracy (as an ideology)
to uphold justice / to be loyal (to one's friends) / to stick by
loyal and righteous / fealty / loyalty
polyseme / polysemous word
materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality
hedonism
to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend / to kick a benefactor in the teeth
virtuous deed
courageous in fighting for a just cause
patriotism
adoptive father
humanism / humanitarian (aid)
compulsory education
racism
not to be shirked without dishonor (idiom) / incumbent / bounden (duty)
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 as villains

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