Vocabulary
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| 诸葛亮 諸葛亮 | Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period; the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms, where he is portrayed as a sage an | Proper Noun |
| 卧龙 臥龍 | nickname of Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮; Wolong giant panda nature reserve 臥龍大熊貓保護區|卧龙大熊猫保护区 in Wenchuan county, northwest Sichuan; Wolong district of Nanyang city, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 红楼梦 紅樓夢 | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin, one of the four great novels | Proper Noun |
| 温州 溫州 | Wenzhou, prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province | Proper Noun |
| 江汉 江漢 | Jianghan district of Wuhan city, Hubei | Proper Noun |
| 华夏 華夏 | old name for China; Cathay | Proper Noun |
| 西伯利亚 西伯利亞 | Siberia | Proper Noun |
| 无锡 無錫 | Wuxi, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province | Proper Noun |
| 四川省 四川省 | Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu | Proper Noun |
| 中共中央 中共中央 | Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 川剧 川劇 | Sichuan opera | Proper Noun |
| 孔子 孔子 | Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as | Proper Noun |
| 高宗 高宗 | Gaozong, the temple name of various emperors, notably, and (aka, and respectively) | Proper Noun |
| 蒙古族 蒙古族 | Mongol ethnic group of north China and Inner Mongolia | Proper Noun |
| 广东人 廣東人 | Cantonese (people) | Proper Noun |
| 珠江 珠江 | Pearl River (Guangdong) | Proper Noun |
| 孙中山 孫中山 | Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党; same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙 | Proper Noun |
| 日军 日軍 | Japanese army; Japanese troops | Proper Noun |
| 秦军 秦軍 | the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors) | Proper Noun |
| 内蒙 內蒙 | Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, capital Hohhot | Proper Noun |
| 松潘 松潘 | Songpan County (Tibetan: zung chu rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, northwest Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 神道 神道 | Shinto (Japanese religion) | Proper Noun |
| 汪清 汪清 | Wangqing County in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin | Proper Noun |
| 辛亥革命 辛亥革命 | Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 亚丁 亞丁 | Aden | Proper Noun |
| 牡丹江 牡丹江 | Mudanjiang, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province | Proper Noun |
| 雷锋 雷鋒 | Lei Feng (1940-1962), a soldier celebrated by the Chinese government from 1963 onward as a model of selflessness and devotion to the Communist Party | Proper Noun |
| 西方人 西方人 | Westerner; Occidental | Proper Noun |
| 青藏高原 青藏高原 | Qinghai-Tibetan plateau | Proper Noun |
| 纳粹 納粹 | Nazi (loanword) | Proper Noun |
| 台湾海峡 台灣海峽 | Taiwan Strait | Proper Noun |
| 大马士革 大馬士革 | Damascus, capital of Syria | Proper Noun |
| 威尼斯 威尼斯 | Venice; Venezia | Proper Noun |
| 喜马拉雅 喜馬拉雅 | the Himalayas | Proper Noun |
| 珠穆朗玛 珠穆朗瑪 | Mount Everest (from its Tibetan name, Chomolungma) | Proper Noun |
| 格拉 格拉 | Gera (city in Germany) | Proper Noun |
| 木村 木村 | Kimura (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 犹太 猶太 | the Jews; Judea | Proper Noun |
| 哥伦布 哥倫布 | Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506); Columbus, capital of Ohio | Proper Noun |
| 圣诞老人 聖誕老人 | Father Christmas; Santa Claus | Proper Noun |
| 崇祯 崇禎 | Chongzhen, reign name of last Ming emperor (1628-1644) | Proper Noun |
| 咸阳 咸陽 | Xianyang, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province | Proper Noun |
| 冰心 冰心 | Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer | Proper Noun |
| 清军 清軍 | the Qing army | Proper Noun |
| 洋务运动 洋務運動 | Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动 | Proper Noun |
| 特别行政区 特別行政區 | special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门; refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government; refers to special zones in | Proper Noun |
| 珠三角 珠三角 | Pearl River Delta | Proper Noun |
| 北斗七星 北斗七星 | (astronomy) Big Dipper | Proper Noun |
| 武松 武松 | Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan Marsh in the classic novel Water Margin, whose exploits include killing a tiger with his bare hands | Proper Noun |
| 北非 北非 | North Africa | Proper Noun |