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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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| | meaning (implicit in a phrase) / implied meaning / hidden meaning / hint / connotation | HSK 4 |
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| | Fu Zuoyi (1895-1974), Guomindang general, subsequently PRC top general and politician | |
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| | definition / to define | HSK 7-9 |
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| | impressionism | |
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| | optimism | |
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| | protectionism | |
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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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| | chivalrous / chivalry / knight-errantry | HSK 7-9 |
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| | pacifism | |
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| | synonymous | |
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| | humanism / humanitarian (aid) | |
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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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| | content / meaning / connotation / implication | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to define | |
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| | humanism | |
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| | communism | |
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| | capitalism | HSK 7-9 |
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| | collectivism | |
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| | egoism | |
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| | injustice | |
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| | imperialism | 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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| | righteousness | |
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| | militarism | |
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| | name / titular / nominal / in name / ostensible purpose | HSK 6 |
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| | egalitarianism | |
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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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| | sense / meaning / significance / importance / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality | |
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| | separatism | |
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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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| | unilateralism | |
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| | Maoism | |
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | loyal and righteous / fealty / loyalty | |
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| | heterosexism | |
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| | (semantics) connotative meaning; connotation | |
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| | feudalism | |
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| | meaning of a character | |
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| | justice / righteousness / just / righteous | HSK 5 |
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| | meaning of words / semantic | |
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| | utilitarianism | |
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| | Formalism (art) | |
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| | national socialism / Nazism | |
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| | broad sense / general sense | HSK 7-9 |
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| | environmentalism | |
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| | socialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to its ideological model, embracing the economic reforms of the post-Mao era | |
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| | -ism / ideology | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as the name implies | |
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| | Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s) | |
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| | feelings of gratitude and loyalty | |
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| | creed / doctrine / teachings | |
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| | extremism | |
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| | righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | the meaning of sth / an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases / definition / an interpretation (of doctrine) / religious doctrine | |
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| | altruism | |
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| | empiricism | |
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| | adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s) | |
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| | bureaucracy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius) / to choose honor over life; would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles | |
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| | not to have any meaning / meaningless | |
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| | hegemonism | |
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| | Marxism | |
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| | Marxism-Leninism | |
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| | hedonism | |
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| | original meaning | |
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| | (linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape | |
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| | morality / righteousness and justice | |
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