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HSK
sense / meaning / significance / importance / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
duty; obligation (CL:項|项) / volunteer (work etc)
HSK 4
meaning (implicit in a phrase) / implied meaning / hidden meaning / hint / connotation
HSK 4
completely lacking any feeling or sense of justice (idiom); cold and ruthless
HSK 7-9
justice / righteousness / just / righteous
HSK 5
socialism
HSK 7-9
name / titular / nominal / in name / ostensible purpose
HSK 6
opportunism / pragmatism
righteousness / justice
Leninism
-ism / ideology
HSK 7-9
minimalism
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
HSK 7-9
persisting in evil brings about self-destruction (idiom)
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
chivalrous / chivalry / knight-errantry
HSK 7-9
to meet as volunteers for an uprising
adopted son
absolutism / despotism / autocracy
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei as villains
capitalism
HSK 7-9
Formalism (art)
philosophy of idealism, the doctrine that external reality is a product of consciousness
honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back / no surrender / to pursue justice with no second thoughts
to forget loyalty when in love / hoes before bros
principle of people's livelihood, the third 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 redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
meaning of a word
romanticism
humanism
separatism
volunteer worker / volunteer work
HSK 7-9
feelings of gratitude and loyalty
compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues / mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
content / meaning / connotation / implication
HSK 7-9
Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s)
bureaucracy
HSK 7-9
money worship
conservatism
objectivist philosophy
populism
to disambiguate
utilitarianism
Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty
environmentalism
missense mutation
synonym
definition / to define
HSK 7-9
subjectivism
feminism
rationalism
injustice
extended meaning (of an expression) / derived sense
hedonism
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
Enlightenment (philosophy)
(idiom, from the Analects) (usu. of a passer-by who comes across a critical situation) to step in and help; to take brave or selfless action
HSK 7-9
nominal value
historic significance
(idiom) to abandon moral principles in the pursuit of profit
Communist Youth League of China / China Youth League
benevolence and righteousness
affable and even-tempered
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
pacifism
existentialism
to define
perfectionist
optimism
not to have any meaning / meaningless
Fu Zuoyi (1895–1974), Chinese general and politician, Nationalist commander who negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beiping (Beijing) to the Communists in 1949, and later held senior posts in the PRC government
(semantics) connotative meaning; connotation
materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality
meaning of a character
to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme
socialist
unilateralism
protectionism
extremism
national socialism / Nazism
pragmatism
morality / righteousness and justice
Jintian Uprising
egoism
compulsory education
broad sense / general sense
HSK 7-9
special relativity
devotion to righteousness that inspires reverence (idiom)
ambiguity / several possible meanings
individualism
righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing
terrorism
progressivism
Nazism
hedonist
internationalism
democrat
policy of nonresistance
male chauvinism
constitutionalism
liberalism

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