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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *朝* | 朝* | *朝
imperial or royal court / government / dynasty / reign of a sovereign or emperor / court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor / to make a pilgrimage to / facing / towards
HSK 3
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
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  *朝* | 朝* | *朝
abbr. for 朝鮮|朝鲜 Korea
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  *朝* | 朝* | *朝
morning
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
tomorrow morning / the following morning
(literary) tomorrow (morning)
dynasty
Northern and Southern dynasties (420-589)
Northern Dynasties (386-581)
the imperial court / the government in imperial times
Tang dynasty (618-907)
MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 鐮倉幕府|镰仓幕府
Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China / Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Zhou Dynasty / Western Zhou 西周 (1046-771 BC) and Eastern Zhou 東周|东周 (770-221 BC)
Resist US, help North Korea (1950s slogan)
every day (archaic)
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
the Xin dynasty (8-23 AD) of Wang Mang 王莽, forming the interregnum between the former and later Han
the current dynasty
Maurya Dynasty of India (322-185 BC)
the current imperial dynasty / one's own court
the current dynasty
to hold a court audience / to govern from the imperial throne (applies esp. to Empress Dowager or Regent)
Southern Dynasties (420-589)
Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
Song Dynasty (960-1279) / also Song of Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479)
the previous dynasty
(dialect) today / (literary) the present; this age
sitting (currently serving, e.g. board members)
Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC)
Six Dynasties (220-589)
Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties / generic term for historic period 220-589 between Han and Sui
Jin Dynasty (265-420)
Sino-Korean / China and North Korea
Sui dynasty (581-617)
Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BC)
Umayyad Empire (661-750, in Iberia -1031), successor of the Rashidun caliphate
Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC)
Korean Goryeo Dynasty, 918-1392
Japan and Korea (esp. North Korea)
to visit North Korea
to suspend business at the imperial court on account of a misfortune
Tudor Dynasty, ruled England 1485-1603
He Chao (active c. 711), Tang dynasty poet
Xia dynasty, unconfirmed but placed at c. 2070-c. 1600 BC
(derog.) the Chinese Communist regime (variant of 天朝 Celestial Empire, invented to circumvent censorship)
one day; sometime in the future
Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
lit. train an army for a thousand days to use it for one morning (idiom) / fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off
Russia, China and North Korea
illegitimate dynasty; pretender dynasty
Tibetan Tubo Dynasty 7th-11th century AD
the Zhou dynasty from 1027 BC
Karakhan dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century
to transition to a new dynasty
Silla, Korean kingdom 57 BC-935 AD / one of the Korean Three Kingdoms from 1st century AD, defeating its rivals Paikche 百濟|百济 and Koguryo 高句麗|高句丽 around 660 in alliance with Tang China / unified Silla 658-935
Ankor Dynasty of Cambodia, 802-1431
Liang Dynasty (502-557)
Persian Safavid Dynasty 1501-1722
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Ak Koyunlu or Aq Qoyunlu Turkoman confederation of eastern Iran (c. 1378-c. 1500)
US and North Korea
Mughal or Mogul Dynasty (1526-1858)
Bagan (Pagan) Dynasty of Myanmar (Burma), 1044-1287
Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)
Persian Safavid Dynasty 1501-1722
Achaemenid Dynasty, (559-330 BC), ancient Iranian dynasty whose kings ruled the Achaemenid Empire
North and South Korea / bilateral Korean relations
Korean Goryeo dynasty, 918-1392
Karakhan Dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century


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