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  *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
dynasty / reign (of a king)
HSK 7-9
towards
HSK 7-9
full of youthful energy (idiom); vigorous / energetic / a bright spark
HSK 7-9
lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold
HSK 7-9
to spend all one's time together (idiom)
HSK 7-9
court / imperial household / dynasty
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  *朝* | 朝* | *朝
abbr. for 朝鮮|朝鲜 Korea
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morning
to be exposed to the sun / in a position facing the sun
the morning sun
to worship / to make customary deferences to / a pilgrimage
North Korea / Korea as geographic term / Taiwan pr. [Chao2xian1]
morning and night / all the time
to make a pilgrimage
Zhaoge, capital of the Shang dynasty 商朝 / Zhaoge town in Qi county 淇縣|淇县, Hebi 鶴壁|鹤壁, Henan
court dress in former times
early morning sunlight
Chaotian district of Guangyuan city 廣元市|广元市, Sichuan
to have an audience with the Emperor / to be presented at court / to look skyward / to look up
toward / to face / to open onto / to turn towards / orientation / exposure / Qibla (Islam)
morning dew / fig. precarious brevity of human life / ephemeral
to yearn for sth day and night (idiom)
court councilor
lit. born in the morning and dying at dusk (idiom) / fig. ephemeral / transient
North and South Korea
vitality / dynamism
from dawn to dusk / all the time
to give audience (of emperor) / retainers' duty to pay respect to sovereign / hajj (Islam)
at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state / imminent crisis / living from hand to mouth
to have an audience (with the Emperor)
to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom)
cautious and diligent all day long (idiom)
all levels of society / the imperial court and the ordinary people
serve Qin in the morning Chu in the evening (idiom); quick to switch sides
Asahi (Japanese place name, company name etc)
morning sun
Korean War (1950-1953)
"Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk", a collection of autobiographical essays by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
reception room for officials (in former times)
People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
pilgrim
North Korea-China
Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper
Chaoyang, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省
Chaoyangmen neighborhood of Beijing
chili pepper (Capsicum frutescens var)
Korean written language
sunrise industry
at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state / imminent crisis / living from hand to mouth
a North Korean; (in broader or historical usage) a Korean
Chaotian district of Guangyuan city 廣元市|广元市, Sichuan
morning rain
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea
every day (archaic)
Korean nuclear problem
Chaoyang, an inner district of Beijing / Chaoyang, a district of Changchun City 長春市|长春市, Jilin / Chaoyang, a district of Shantou City 汕頭市|汕头市, Guangdong
the eight provinces of Yi dynasty Korea
Korean language
facing forwards
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea
to go on a pilgrimage and offer incense (idiom)
variant of 朝廷
backwards / facing back
abbr. for 朝鮮戰爭|朝鲜战争, Korean War (1950-1953)
a pilgrimage to a holy mountain
Korean ethnic group of Jilin province and northeast China / same as 朝鮮族|朝鲜族
Zhaoge town in Qi county 淇縣|淇县, Hebi 鶴壁|鹤壁, Henan
TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger
court beads (derived from Buddhist prayer beads)
laws and discipline of imperial court
lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening / to correct an error very quickly (idiom)
to present tribute (to the emperor)
to correct in the evening a fault of the morning (idiom) / to quickly amend one's ways
entrance portal (to a palace) / propylaeum
Chaoyang, a county in Chaoyang City 朝陽市|朝阳市, Liaoning
morning dew, evening mist (idiom); ephemeral / impermanent
the morning dew will swiftly dissipate (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
lit. breakfast in the morning and supper in the evening (idiom) / fig. to do nothing but eat and drink
North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) / abbr. to 朝中社
Korean Peninsula
King Taejong of Joseon Korea (1367-1422), reigned 1400-1418
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet / Korean letters
Korean ethnic group in China (mainly in northeast China) / the Koreans (major ethnic group on the Korean Peninsula)
talks on North Korea's nuclear program
Korea Strait / Tsushima Strait (between Japan and Korea)
gayageum (Korean 12-stringed zither)
Japanese colonial administration of Korea 1910-1945


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