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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| 血 血 | blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] | Colloquialism |
| 管 筦 | to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards | Colloquialism |
| 袁世凯 袁世凱 | Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China | Proper Noun |
| 黄克强 黃克強 | pseudonym of Huang Xing, one of the heroes of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution | Proper Noun |
| 荷马 荷馬 | Homer, poet of ancient Greece | Proper Noun |
| 民国 民國 | Republic of China (1912-1949); used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911) | Proper Noun |
| 秋瑾 秋瑾 | Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films | Proper Noun |
| 布坎南 布坎南 | Buchanan (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 粤汉铁路 粵漢鐵路 | Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway | Proper Noun |
| 光复会 光復會 | anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei; aka | Proper Noun |
| 太平洋 太平洋 | Pacific Ocean | Proper Noun |
| 城防 城防 | city defense | Proper Noun |
| 马克 馬克 | Mark (name) | Proper Noun |
| 葡萄牙 葡萄牙 | Portugal | Proper Noun |
| 汉阳 漢陽 | Hanyang county in Hubei province; historical name Hanyang for Seoul, Korea | Proper Noun |
| 康有为 康有為 | Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898 | Proper Noun |
| 张勋 張勳 | Zhang Xun (1854-1923), Qing loyalist general who attempted to restore the abdicated emperor Puyi to the throne in the Manchu Restoration of 1917 | Proper Noun |
| 路易 路易 | (name) Louis | Proper Noun |
| 屠城 屠城 | to massacre everyone in a captured city | Proper Noun |
| 白银 白銀 | Baiyin, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 朝廷 朝廷 | court; imperial household; dynasty | |
| 民 民 | people, subjects, citizens | |
| 事儿 事兒 | matter, affair | |
| 和谈 和談 | peace talks | |
| 退位 退位 | to abdicate | |
| 王朝 王朝 | dynasty | |
| 总督 總督 | governor-general; viceroy; governor | |
| 朱 朱 | cinnabar, vermilion; surname | |
| 典 典 | law, canon; documentation; classic, scripture | |
| 点儿 點兒 | a bit | |
| 绝不 絕不 | in no way; not in the least; absolutely not | |
| 帝 帝 | supreme ruler, emperor; god | |
| 断头台 斷頭台 | guillotine; scaffold | |
| 活着 活著 | alive | |
| 人心 人心 | popular feeling; the will of the people | |
| 楚 楚 | name of feudal state; clear | |
| 银行家 銀行家 | banker | |
| 唐 唐 | Tang dynasty; Chinese | |
| 一声 一聲 | first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone) | |
| 世人 世人 | people (in general); people around the world; everyone | |
| 所知 所知 | known; what one knows | |
| 非要 非要 | to want absolutely; to insist on (doing sth) | |
| 邦 邦 | nation, country, state | |
| 准备好了 準備好了 | to be ready | |
| 决断 決斷 | to make a decision; resolution; decisiveness; resolute | |
| 舰 艦 | warship | |
| 乱跑 亂跑 | to run around all over the place | |
| 食 食 | eat; meal; food; KangXi radical number 184 | |
| 留步 留步 | (said by departing guest) no need to see me out | |
| 胜算 勝算 | odds of success; stratagem that ensures success; to be sure of success |