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emperor / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
Cantonese seafood soup
the title of Emperor
one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor (proverb) / to a fearless person, no fence is high enough
empress / imperial consort
HSK 7-9
the emperor / Your majesty the emperor / His imperial majesty
HSK 7-9
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canadian federal and national police force / Mounties
child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child
Heavenly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇 / emperor / emperor of Japan
Crown publishers, Hong Kong
Jade Emperor
Jade Emperor (in Taoism)
overt / to make no secret (of one's presence) / grandiose / with great scope
imposing / grand
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  *皇* | 皇* | *皇
surname Huang
Tsarist Russia
Qin Shihuang (259-210 BC), the first emperor
in a panic / flurried
royal / imperial household
Emperor Ming of Tang (685-762), also known as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang 唐玄宗, reigned 712-756
royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family
HSK 7-9
eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
(idiom) (of houses etc) sumptuous
czar (loanword)
flustered / ruffled / disconcerted
panic-stricken (idiom) / to be in a flustered state / also written 張惶失措|张惶失措
the Royal Society (UK scientific academy)
lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom) / fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government
imperial power
imperial palace
HSK 7-9
The Last Emperor, 1987 biopic of Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪 by Bernardo Bertolucci
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
the Emperor's new clothes (i.e. naked)
royal jelly
Dairy Queen (brand)
Human Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇
local tyrant
Emperor of Japan
imperial law / same as 王法
to look to the past for guidance (idiom)
high-sounding / dignified / pompous (idiom)
(Catholicism) pope; pontiff
lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom) / fig. highly sought after
old calendar / out-of-date customs
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
lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money
(lit.) past years' almanac / (fig.) ancient history; obsolete practice; old-fashioned principle
see 茼蒿
the imperial court / the government in imperial times
August Heaven; Heaven as supreme deity (often paired with 后土, the Earth Deity)
the First Emperor 259-210 BC
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
empress dowager
prince
the emperor relatives (idiom); person with powerful connections
Royal Canadian Navy
the brightest jewel in the crown
emperor of a former dynasty
Huanggu district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning
lit. almanac from years back (idiom) / obsolete practice / old-fashioned principle
giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne)
(bird species of China) mountain imperial pigeon (Ducula badia)
HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) / prefix for Canadian Navy Vessels
Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City
Queenstown, town in New Zealand
drag queen; female impersonator
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
the mausoleum of the First Emperor near Xi'an
lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲 / person from ages immemorial / fig. untroubled person
drag queen
empress
empress / refers to Tang empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天 (624-705), reigned 690-705
Real Madrid soccer team / abbr. for 皇家馬德里|皇家马德里
royalists
brown coconut; mature coconut
Real Madrid (soccer team)
imperial notice (announcement in the form of a notice posted with the authority of the emperor)
Jade Emperor Peak on Mt Tai in Shandong
Royal Hong Kong Police Force (1969-1997)
Crown publishing group, Hong Kong
Burger King Whopper
two-character surname Huangfu
lit. imperial funding for troops / funds or items supplied by the government
imperial army (esp. Japanese)
three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography
Taishang Huang / Retired Emperor / father of the reigning emperor / fig. puppet master
Huangfu Song (-195), later Han general and warlord
(archaic) (honorific) deceased father (esp. of an emperor)
heaven and earth (idiom)
crown prince
Earthly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇
crown (headgear)
Imperial City, inner part of Beijing, with the Forbidden City at its center
imperial kindness / benevolence from the emperor
Qing emergency cabinet set up in May 1911 to confront the Xinhai rebels
crown prince

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