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HSK
century / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
HSK 3
to commemorate; to honor the memory of / memento; keepsake; souvenir
HSK 3
discipline
HSK 4
21st century
commemorative banknote
Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西 ethnic group
creation myth
world record
20th century
day of commemoration / memorial day
HSK 7-9
to set a new record
trophy
(of a person) to get old
commemorative coin
Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago)
to be getting on in years / to be of the older generation
newsreel / documentary (film or TV program) / CL:
HSK 7-9
final years of the century
Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago) / also written 三疊紀|三叠纪
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), organization within the CCP which investigates corruption and other wrongdoing among Party cadres / abbr. for 中共中央紀律檢查委員會|中共中央纪律检查委员会
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
to manage (a business) / manager / broker
New Age (movement)
new era; new epoch
record of actual events / documentary (factual rather than fictional)
HSK 7-9
Cambrian geological period (541-485.4 million years ago)
end of the century
Epoch Times, US newspaper
memorial hall / commemorative museum
HSK 7-9
Qu Yuan Memorial Hall in Zigui county 秭歸縣|秭归县, Hubei, built in 1982 and a major tourist attraction since then
law and order
commemorative album; autograph book; (graduation) yearbook
memorial hall / mausoleum
wedding anniversary
disciplinary inspection / to inspect another's discipline
medieval / Middle Ages
Jurassic (geological period 205-140m years ago)
Monument to the People's Heroes, at Tiananmen Square
law and order / rules and discipline
to break a record / record-breaking
commemorative postage stamp
pre-Cambrian, geological period before c. 540m years ago
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  *纪* | 纪* | *纪
surname Ji / also pr. [Ji4]
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  *纪* | 纪* | *纪
order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle
history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian
variant of 記錄|记录 (but in Taiwan, not for the verb sense "to record")
HSK 3
standard of behavior / moral standards / discipline
memorial
biographic sketch of an emperor
Second book of Kings
lit. to break the law and violate the rules (idiom) / fig. misconduct
the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
calendar era / epoch
Ordovician (geological period 495-440m years ago)
to be of an advanced age; to be old / an advanced age
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, writer and artist
Devonian (geological period 417-354m years ago)
before the common era (BC)
discipline inspection commission
monument
HSK 7-9
lack of discipline / to break a rule / to violate discipline / to breach a principle
with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules / in complete disorder
minutes / written summary of a meeting
Sinian (c. 800-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
(geology) the Holocene Epoch
Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago)
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCP
Serf Liberation Day (PRC)
Epoch Times, US newspaper
stockbroker
souvenir; memento
to record and preserve
the Cambrian explosion
First book of Kings
Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
Ediacaran period (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
Ji Yun (1724-1805), Qing Dynasty writer, author of supernatural novel Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut 閱微草堂筆記|阅微草堂笔记
mockumentary
Silurian (geological period 440-417m years ago)
the Cambrian explosion
third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
Memorial Day (American holiday)
Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history
Carboniferous (geological period 354-292m years ago)
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
rules for political staff / political discipline
Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago) / also written 二疊紀|二叠纪
Cang Jize or Tseng Chi-tse (1839-1890), pioneer diplomat of late Qing, serve as imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK, France and Russia
Bamboo Annals, early chronicle of Chinese ancient history, written c. 300 BC
fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago)
to number the years / calendar era / annals / chronicle
memorial badge / souvenir badge / CL:
broker / middleman / agent / manager
to break the rules / to break discipline
Memorial Day (American holiday)
examination discipline / (Tw) performance assessment and discipline (abbr. for 考核 + 紀律|纪律), used in reference to internal review and oversight functions within political parties


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