| | to make a circuit / to circle / circle / circumference / lap / cycle / complete / all / all over / thorough / to help financially | HSK 2 |
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| | week / weekly / variant of 周 | HSK 2 |
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| | congee / gruel / porridge / CL: 碗 | HSK 6 |
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| | to wrinkle / wrinkled / to crease | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname Chen / Chen (c. 1045 - 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state / Chen (557-589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝 | |
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| | Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周, and is also known as the "God of Dreams" | |
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| | eternity / (geology) eon | |
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| | surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) / surname Yan | |
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| | surname Wei / vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1066-221 BC), located in present-day Henan and Hebei Provinces | |
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| | prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland) | |
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| | boat | |
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| | the name of a state in the Zhou dynasty in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭｜新郑, a county-level city in Henan / surname Zheng / abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州｜郑州, the capital of Henan | |
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| | axis / axle / spool (for thread) / roller (for scrolls) / classifier for calligraphy rolls etc | |
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| | incantation / magic spell / curse / malediction / to revile / to put a curse on sb | |
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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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| | surname Xue / vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) | |
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| | Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) / abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing / surname Ba / abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian / abbr. for Pakistan | |
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| | Qi, a Zhou Dynasty vassal state / surname Qi | |
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| | surname Zou / vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) in the southeast of Shandong | |
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| | Zhou dynasty (1046-221 BC) | |
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| | (dialect) to wrap with straw / classifier for a bundle (of bowls, dishes etc) tied with straw | |
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| | vassal state of Zhou in Shandong / Teng County in Shandong / surname Teng | |
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| | Yu, Zhou Dynasty vassal state, in present-day Linyi 臨沂｜临沂, Shandong / surname Yu | |
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| | chaste tree or berry (Vitex agnus-castus) / alternative name for the Zhou Dynasty state of Chu 楚國｜楚国 | |
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| | crepe / wrinkle | |
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| | surname Ji / family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代 (1046-256 BC) | |
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| | surname Zhou / Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) | |
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| | surname Kui / Zhou Dynasty vassal state | |
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| | strong wine | |
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| | elbow / pork shoulder | |
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| | Qi state of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong | |
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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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| | crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail) | |
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| | Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC) | |
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| | surname Zhou | |
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| | (literary) seal script used throughout the pre-Han period / to recite / to read (aloud) | |
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| | Meiling (female name) / Zhou Meiling 周美玲 (1969-), Taiwanese gay film director | |
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| | surname Guo / Guo, a kinship group whose members held dukedoms within the Zhou Dynasty realm, including Western Guo 西虢國｜西虢国 and Eastern Guo 東虢國｜东虢国 | |
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| | Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝, located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東｜山东, birthplace of Confucius | |
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| | interpretations of the trigrams | |
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| | helmet / descendants | |
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| | broom | |
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| | the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581) / one of the Northern Dynasties | |
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| | lit. helping tyrant Zhou 商紂王｜商纣王 in his oppression (idiom) / fig. to take the side of the evildoer / giving succor to the enemy | |
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| | (feminine name) | |
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| | 8 in. length unit of Zhou dynasty | |
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| | stone roller (for threshing grain, leveling ground etc) / Taiwan pr. [du2] | |
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| | Baosi, concubine of King You of Zhou 周幽王 and one of the famous Chinese beauties | |
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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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| | Later Zhou of the Five Dynasties (951-960), centered on Shandong and Hebei, with capital at Kaifeng 開封｜开封 | |
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| | state of Wei (c. 1040-209 BC), vassal of Zhou | |
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| | formal ceremonial music of each succeeding Chinese dynasty starting with the Zhou / Korean a'ak / Japanese gagaku | |
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| | Western Zhou (1027-771 BC) | |
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| | Zhou Dynasty vassal state in modern day Shandong Province | |
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| | the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards / Xionites (Central Asian nomads) | |
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| | beak of bird / peck at | |
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| | sudden / unexpected / abrupt / suddenly / Taiwan pr. [zou4] | |
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| | daytime | |
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| | to grieve / sorrowful | |
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| | to conceal / to cover | |
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| | Linghu Defen (583-666), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Zhou of the Northern dynasties 周書｜周书 | |
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| | Zhou Yu (175-210), famous general of the southern Wu kingdom and victor of the battle of Redcliff / in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, absolutely no match for Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮｜诸葛亮 | |
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| | (literary) to curse / to deceive / to lie | |
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| | Zhou Dynasty term for a northern nomadic tribe later called the Xiongnu 匈奴 in the Qin and Han Dynasties | |
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| | name of a district in Shaanxi | |
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| | brickwork of well | |
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| | Quanrong, Zhou Dynasty ethnic group of present-day western China | |
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| | (literary) shaft (of a cart) / cart | |
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| | Zhou Dynasty capital / surname Feng | |
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| | surname Zeng / Zhou vassal state / also pr. [Ceng2] | |
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| | surname Xu / vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-221 BC) | |
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| | (dialect) stubborn | |
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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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| | surname Cheng / Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE) vassal state | |
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| | to give to the needy / to bestow alms / charity | |
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| | divine horse | |
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| | three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou) | |
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| | Haojing (in modern Shaanxi, northwest of Chang'an county), capital of Western Zhou from c. 1050 BC | |
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| | the Rites of Zhou (in Confucianism) | |
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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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| | Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar | |
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| | the Zhou family (household, firm etc) / Jow-Ga Kung Fu - Martial Art | |
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| | King Zhou of Shang (11th century BC), notorious as a cruel tyrant | |
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| | King Mu, fifth king of Zhou, said to have lived to 105 and reigned 976-922 BC or 1001-947 BC, rich in associated mythology | |
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| | Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王 and the elder brother of King Wu 周武王 who was the founder of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝 of ancient China | |
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| | Zhou Yumin or Vic Zhou (1981-), Taiwan singer and actor, member of pop group F4 | |
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| | Zhou Libo (1908-1979), left-wing journalist, translator and novelist / Zhou Libo (1967-), Chinese stand-up comedian | |
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| | Zhou Youguang (1906-2017), PRC linguist, considered the father of Hanyu Pinyin 漢語拼音｜汉语拼音 | |
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| | Zhou Xin (c. 11th century BC), last king of the Shang dynasty | |
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