| | (bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above | HSK 1 |
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| | to injure / injury / wound | HSK 3 |
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| | to bestow (a reward) / to give (to an inferior) / to hand down / a reward (bestowed by a superior) / to appreciate (beauty) | HSK 4 |
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| | still / yet / to value / to esteem | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC) / surname Shang | |
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| | commerce / merchant / dealer / to consult / 2nd note in pentatonic scale / quotient (as in 智商, intelligence quotient) | |
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| | surname Shang | |
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| | surname Yin / dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟 in present-day Henan | |
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| | surname Ruan / small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province | |
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| | Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国, whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝 | |
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| | entropy (character created in 1923) | |
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| | to consult / to deliberate / commerce | |
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| | Cerambyx rugicollis | |
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| | to die in childhood / war dead | |
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| | Zhaoge, capital of the Shang dynasty 商朝 / Zhaoge town in Qi county 淇縣|淇县, Hebi 鶴壁|鹤壁, Henan | |
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| | feast / goblet | |
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| | Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC) | |
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| | Zhou, pejorative name given posthumously to the last king of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 (the name refers to a crupper 紂|纣, the piece of horse tack most likely to be soiled by the horse) | |
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| | ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king / zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes / gluttonous / sumptuous (banquet) | |
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| | tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones | |
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| | final name of the Shang dynasty after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province | |
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| | the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC) | |
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| | variant of 垧 / Taiwan pr. [chong3] | |
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| | part of the day / midday | |
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| | plowed earth / soil moisture / furrow | |
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| | Daji (c. 11th century BC), concubine of the last Shang dynasty king Zhou Xin 紂辛|纣辛 | |
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| | oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones | |
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| | to sole a shoe | |
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| | unit of land area (equivalent to 10 or 15 mǔ 畝|亩 in parts of northeast China, but only 3 or 5 mǔ in northwest China) | |
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| | Ao, Shang Dynasty capital (northeast part of modern day Zhengzhou, Henan) | |
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| | form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire | |
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| | three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou) | |
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| | variant of 尚, still / yet / to value / to esteem | |
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| | Fu Hao (c. 1200 BC), or Lady Hao, female Chinese general of the late Shang Dynasty 商朝 | |
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| | Wu Ding (c. 14th century BC), legendary founder and wise ruler of Shang dynasty | |
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| | Jizi, legendary sage from end of Shang dynasty (c. 1100 BC), said to have opposed the tyrant Zhou 紂|纣, then ruled ancient Korea in the Zhou 周 dynasty | |
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| | the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣|杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence | |
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| | King Zhou of Shang (11th century BC), notorious as a cruel tyrant | |
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| | Zhou Xin (c. 11th century BC), last king of the Shang dynasty | |
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| | The Book of Lord Shang, Legalist text of the 4th century BC | |
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| | Fu Shuo (c. 14th century BC), legendary sage and principal minister of Shang ruler Wu Ding | |
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| | Emperor Shang of Tang, reign name of fifth Tang emperor Li Chongmao 李重茂 (c. 695-715), reigned 710 | |
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| | Shang Tang (1646-? BC), legendary founder of the Shang Dynasty | |
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| | Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國|秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination | |
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| | Xia, Shang and Zhou, the earliest named Chinese dynasties | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Di Yi (died 1076 BC), Shang dynasty king, reigned 1101-1076 BC | |
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| | Dijun, Shang dynasty protector God, possibly same as legendary Emperor 帝嚳|帝喾 | |
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| | Emperor Xin, last ruler of Shang (11th Century BC), famous as a tyrant | |
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| | Li Chongmao, personal name of fifth Tang emperor Shang 唐殤帝|唐殇帝 (c. 695-715), reigned 710 | |
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| | King Wu of Zhou 周武王 overthrows tyrant Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王 | |
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| | the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤, of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王 | |
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| | white pottery (of Shang Dynastry 16-11th century BC) | |
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