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emperor / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
the emperor / Your majesty the emperor / His imperial majesty
HSK 7-9
royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family
HSK 7-9
imperial palace
HSK 7-9
empress / imperial consort
HSK 7-9
see 茼蒿
crown prince
Heavenly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇 / emperor / emperor of Japan
flustered / ruffled / disconcerted
royal / imperial household
high-sounding / dignified / pompous (idiom)
Qin Shihuang (259-210 BC), the first emperor
prince
crown (headgear)
empress
imposing / grand
the three legendary sovereigns of the third millennium BC: Suiren 燧人, Fuxi 伏羲 and Shennong 神農|神农, or 天皇, 地皇 and 人皇
the imperial court / the government in imperial times
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皇* | 皇* | *皇
surname Huang
(idiom) (of houses etc) sumptuous
two-character surname Huangfu
in a panic / flurried
emperor of a former dynasty
the emperor relatives (idiom); person with powerful connections
child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child
Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor / posthumous name 清太宗
empress dowager
(lit.) past years' almanac / (fig.) ancient history; obsolete practice; old-fashioned principle
the tomb of the first emperor at Mt Li 驪山|骊山 near Xi'an (awaits excavation)
lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom) / fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government
The Last Emperor, 1987 biopic of Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪 by Bernardo Bertolucci
crown prince
the Royal Society (UK scientific academy)
lit. imperial funding for troops / funds or items supplied by the government
Emperor Ming of Tang (685-762), also known as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang 唐玄宗, reigned 712-756
royalists
royal jelly
Imperial City, inner part of Beijing, with the Forbidden City at its center
local tyrant
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
(archaic) (honorific) deceased father (esp. of an emperor)
imperial power
the imperial family / royal kin
Jade Emperor (in Taoism)
czar (loanword)
Zanhuang county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, Hebei
Taishang Huang / Retired Emperor / father of the reigning emperor / fig. puppet master
(Catholicism) pope; pontiff
Huanggu district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning
Human Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇
panic-stricken (idiom) / to be in a flustered state / also written 張惶失措|张惶失措
imperial army (esp. Japanese)
overt / to make no secret (of one's presence) / grandiose / with great scope
Zanhuang county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, Hebei
lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲 / person from ages immemorial / fig. untroubled person
heaven and earth (idiom)
imperial kindness / benevolence from the emperor
three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *皇* | 皇* | *皇
emperor / old variant of
Huanggu district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning
variant of 黃曆|黄历
old calendar / out-of-date customs
lit. almanac from years back (idiom) / obsolete practice / old-fashioned principle
variant of 彷徨
Real Madrid soccer team / abbr. for 皇家馬德里|皇家马德里
magnificent / variant of 惶惶 / variant of 遑遑
Jade Emperor
empress / refers to Tang empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天 (624-705), reigned 690-705
Earthly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇
eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
Real Madrid (soccer team)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Queenstown, town in New Zealand
drag queen
variant of 艅艎
Crown publishers, Hong Kong
Emperor of Japan
the Emperor's new clothes (i.e. naked)
Royal Navy (UK)
Crowne Plaza (hotel chain)
Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City
giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne)
the First Emperor 259-210 BC
Royal Hong Kong Police Force (1969-1997)
Qing emergency cabinet set up in May 1911 to confront the Xinhai rebels
the mausoleum of the First Emperor near Xi'an
Pao Chui (Chinese martial art)
drag queen; female impersonator
Cantonese seafood soup
Jade Emperor Peak on Mt Tai in Shandong
Huangfu Song (-195), later Han general and warlord
to run off in a great panic (idiom)
Dairy Queen (brand)
HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) / prefix for Canadian Navy Vessels
Royal Canadian Navy
lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money
Queen's University (Belfast)

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