1911 2011
辛亥革命
China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.
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| 幅 幅 | width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures | |
| 丢 丟 | to lose; to put aside; to throw | |
| 协议 協議 | agreement; pact; protocol | |
| 鬼 鬼 | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | |
| 枪 槍 | gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots | |
| 颗 顆 | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | |
| 一旦 一旦 | in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day | |
| 意识 意識 | consciousness; awareness; to be aware; to realize | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 关键 關鍵 | crucial point; crux; key; crucial; pivotal | |
| 享受 享受 | to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure | |
| 尽管 儘管 | despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating | |
| 即使 即使 | even if; even though | |
| 再次 再次 | one more time; again; one more; once again | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 组织 組織 | to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave | |
| 杀 殺 | to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 搞 搞 | to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 新婚燕尔 新婚燕爾 | (idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married | Idiom |
| 落叶归根 落葉歸根 | Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by, starring | Idiom |
| 物竞天择 物競天擇 | natural selection | Idiom |
| 就地正法 就地正法 | to execute on the spot (idiom); summary execution; to carry out the law on the spot | Idiom |
| 人才济济 人才濟濟 | a galaxy of talent (idiom); a great number of competent people | Idiom |
| 治病救人 治病救人 | to treat the disease to save the patient; to criticize a person in order to help him | Idiom |
| 手不释卷 手不釋卷 | lit. always with a book in hand (idiom); fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking | Idiom |
| 纸上谈兵 紙上談兵 | lit. military tactics on paper (idiom); fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice; armchair strategist; idle theorizing; cf Zhao Kuo leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Ch | Idiom |
| 多此一举 多此一舉 | to do more than is required (idiom); superfluous; gilding the lily | Idiom |
| 万象更新 萬象更新 | (in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom) | Idiom |
| 困苦 困苦 | deprivation; distressed; miserable | Xiehouyu |
| 明摆着 明擺著 | evident; clear; undoubted | Xiehouyu |
| 无法无天 無法無天 | (idiom) defiant of the law and lacking any sense of morality; lawless; out of control; unruly | Xiehouyu |
| 来不及 來不及 | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late (to do sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 不济 不濟 | (coll.) no good; of no use | Colloquialism |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 孙文 孫文 | the original name of, Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang | Proper Noun |
| 孙 孫 | Sun (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 武昌 武昌 | Wuchang district of Wuhan city, Hubei | Proper Noun |
| 大清 大清 | Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 清廷 清廷 | the Qing court (as government of China) | Proper Noun |
| 中华民国 中華民國 | Republic of China | Proper Noun |
| 清朝 清朝 | Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 同盟会 同盟會 | Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912 | Proper Noun |