Vocabulary
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| 上下五千年 上下五千年 | Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang | Proper Noun |
| 湖南 湖南 | Hunan Province, capital Changsha | Proper Noun |
| 巴黎 巴黎 | Paris, capital of France | Proper Noun |
| 北平 北平 | Peiping or Beiping (name of Beijing at different periods, esp. 1928-1949) | Proper Noun |
| 大名 大名 | Daming county in Handan, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 西安 西安 | Xi'an, sub-provincial city and capital of Shaanxi Province; Xi'an District of Liaoyuan City, Jilin; Xi'an District of Mudanjiang city, Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 天安门 天安門 | Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 中国科学院 中國科學院 | Chinese Academy of Science | Proper Noun |
| 一带一路 一帶一路 | Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government plan to provide finance and engineering expertise to build infrastructure across Eurasia and northeast Africa, unveiled in 2013 | Proper Noun |
| 中国红 中國紅 | vermilion | Proper Noun |
| 万年 萬年 | Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 名家 名家 | School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names | Proper Noun |
| 黄河 黃河 | Yellow River or Huang He | Proper Noun |
| 成大 成大 | National Cheng Kung University | Proper Noun |
| 习近平 習近平 | Xi Jinping (1953-), PRC politician, General Secretary of the CCP from 2012, president of the PRC from 2013 | Proper Noun |
| 中华人民共和国 中華人民共和國 | People's Republic of China | Proper Noun |
| 中南海 中南海 | Zhongnanhai, palace adjacent to the Forbidden City, now the central headquarters of the Communist Party and the State Council | Proper Noun |
| 大湖 大湖 | Dahu or Tahu township in Miaoli county, northwest Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 香港人 香港人 | Hong Kong person or people | Proper Noun |
| 东周 東周 | Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC) | Proper Noun |
| 颜真卿 顏真卿 | Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 近东 近東 | Near East | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 如果说 如果說 | if; if one were to say | |
| 今生 今生 | this life | |
| 千年 千年 | millennium | |
| 物 物 | thing, substance, creature | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 韩 韓 | fence; surname; Korea | |
| 战 戰 | war, fighting, battle | |
| 书画 書畫 | painting and calligraphy | |
| 陈 陳 | exhibit, display; plead; a surname | |
| 载 載 | load; carry; transport, convey | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 万岁 萬歲 | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty; His Majesty | |
| 言 言 | words, speech; speak, say | |
| 史 史 | history, chronicle, annals | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 纳 納 | admit, take, receive, accept | |
| 不一样 不一樣 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 专 專 | monopolize, take sole possession | |
| 那种 那種 | that kind of | |
| 千里 千里 | a thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers); a long distance | |
| 身 身 | body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 | |
| 义 義 | right conduct, righteousness | |
| 华 華 | flowery; illustrious; Chinese | |
| 万国 萬國 | all nations | |
| 艺术家 藝術家 | artist | |
| 几千 幾千 | several thousand |