Vocabulary
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| 大唐 大唐 | Great Tang | Proper Noun |
| 波罗 波羅 | Polo (car made by Volkswagen); surname Polo | Proper Noun |
| 戈壁滩 戈壁灘 | Gobi desert | Proper Noun |
| 宿州 宿州 | Suzhou, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province | Proper Noun |
| 江南 江南 | south of Changjiang or Yangtze river; south of the lower reaches of Changjiang; often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces; a province during Qing times; in literature, refers to the sunny south; Gangnam (distri | Proper Noun |
| 伊犁 伊犁 | Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region; Ili River in central Asia; the Yili basin around Urumqi in Xinjiang | Proper Noun |
| 多尔 多爾 | Dole (name); Bob Dole (1923-2021), US Republican politician, Kansas senator 1969-1996 | Proper Noun |
| 唐代 唐代 | Tang dynasty (618-907) | Proper Noun |
| 甘肃省 甘肅省 | Gansu Province, capital Lanzhou | Proper Noun |
| 哈密 哈密 | Hami, prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region | Proper Noun |
| 隋唐 隋唐 | Sui (581-617) and Tang dynasties (618-907) | Proper Noun |
| 魏晋 魏晉 | Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties | Proper Noun |
| 敦煌石窟 敦煌石窟 | Dunhuang caves in Gansu; refers to Mogao caves | Proper Noun |
| 唐太宗 唐太宗 | Emperor Taizong of Tang, reign name of second Tang emperor Li Shimin (599-649), reigned 626-649 | Proper Noun |
| 沙俄 沙俄 | Tsarist Russia; abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 藏族 藏族 | Tibetan ethnic group | Proper Noun |
| 帕米尔高原 帕米爾高原 | the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia | Proper Noun |
| 乌孙国 烏孫國 | Wusun kingdom of central Asia (c. 300 BC-300 AD) | Proper Noun |
| 金昌 金昌 | Jinchang, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 汉文 漢文 | Chinese written language; Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad | Proper Noun |
| 东晋 東晉 | Eastern Jin dynasty 317-420 | Proper Noun |
| 大理 大理 | Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, in Yunnan Province | Proper Noun |
| 叶城 葉城 | Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture, west Xinjiang | Proper Noun |
| 司马迁 司馬遷 | Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian, known as the father of Chinese historiography | Proper Noun |
| 释迦牟尼 釋迦牟尼 | Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama) | Proper Noun |
| 佛教徒 佛教徒 | Buddhist | Proper Noun |
| 和政 和政 | Hezheng County in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 太守 太守 | governor of a province | Proper Noun |
| 印度洋 印度洋 | Indian Ocean | Proper Noun |
| 涅槃经 涅槃經 | (Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra | Proper Noun |
| 亚美尼亚 亞美尼亞 | Armenia | Proper Noun |
| 公孙 公孫 | two-character surname Gongsun | Proper Noun |
| 神佛 神佛 | Gods and Buddhas | Proper Noun |
| 文殊 文殊 | Manjushri Bodhisattva | Proper Noun |
| 西梁 西梁 | Western Liang (kingdom) | Proper Noun |
| 文殊菩萨 文殊菩薩 | Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness | Proper Noun |
| 李世民 李世民 | Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong (599-649), reigned 626-649 | Proper Noun |
| 玄武 玄武 | Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky); (in Daoism) God of the north sky | Proper Noun |
| 净土 淨土 | (Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit) | Proper Noun |
| 孔子 孔子 | Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as | Proper Noun |
| 窝阔台 窩闊臺 | Ögedei Khan (1186-1242), a son of Genghis Khan | Proper Noun |
| 金塔 金塔 | Jinta county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 西宁 西寧 | Xining, prefecture-level city and capital of Qinghai Province | Proper Noun |
| 查尔斯 查爾斯 | Charles | Proper Noun |
| 李广 李廣 | Li Guang (-119 BC), Han dynasty general, nicknamed Flying General 飛將軍|飞将军 and much feared by the Xiongnu 匈奴 | Proper Noun |
| 易经 易經 | The Book of Changes ("I Ching") | Proper Noun |
| 辽东 遼東 | Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea; east and south of Liaoning province; east of Liao river 遼河|辽河 | Proper Noun |
| 塔里木 塔里木 | the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang | Proper Noun |
| 亚欧大陆 亞歐大陸 | Eurasian continent | Proper Noun |
| 孔庙 孔廟 | Confucian temple | Proper Noun |