Vocabulary
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| 山东 山東 | Shandong Province, capital Jinan | Proper Noun |
| 十二月 十二月 | December; twelfth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 四书 四書 | Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子 | Proper Noun |
| 东汉 東漢 | Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220 | Proper Noun |
| 东吴 東吳 | Eastern Wu (222-280); the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 | Proper Noun |
| 中西 中西 | China and the West; Chinese-Western | Proper Noun |
| 山下 山下 | Yamashita (Japanese surname) | Proper Noun |
| 日本 日本 | Japan | Proper Noun |
| 东京 東京 | Tokyo, capital of Japan; Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period) | Proper Noun |
| 上都 上都 | Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) | Proper Noun |
| 九月 九月 | September; ninth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 天后 天后 | Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu; Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name) | Proper Noun |
| 远东 遠東 | Far East (loanword) | Proper Noun |
| 西门 西門 | two-character surname Ximen | Proper Noun |
| 客家 客家 | Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south | Proper Noun |
| 新都 新都 | Xindu or Newtown district of Chengdu city, Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 汉水 漢水 | Han River (Hanshui) | Proper Noun |
| 十月 十月 | October; tenth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 汉人 漢人 | Han Chinese person or people | Proper Noun |
| 回回 回回 | (old) the Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); a Hui person | Proper Noun |
| 雍正 雍正 | Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735) | Proper Noun |
| 大兴 大興 | Daxing, a district of Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 山西 山西 | Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan | Proper Noun |
| 法国 法國 | France | Proper Noun |
| 中都 中都 | Zhongdu, capital of China during the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), modern day Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 天门 天門 | Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei | Proper Noun |
| 广东 廣東 | Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou | Proper Noun |
| 朝鲜 朝鮮 | North Korea; Korea as geographic term; Taiwan pr. [Chao2xian1] | Proper Noun |
| 陕西 陝西 | Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an | Proper Noun |
| 三水 三水 | Sanshui, a district of Foshan, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 三门 三門 | Sanmen county in Taizhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 三国 三國 | Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history; any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla in 658 | Proper Noun |
| 大都会 大都會 | major city; metropolis; metropolitan | Proper Noun |
| 三重 三重 | Sanchong, a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan; Mie Prefecture in central Japan | Proper Noun |
| 中东 中東 | Middle East | Proper Noun |
| 北魏 北魏 | Wei of the Northern Dynasties (386-534), founded by the Tuoba 拓跋 branch of Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 | Proper Noun |
| 中俄 中俄 | China-Russia | Proper Noun |
| 和珅 和珅 | Heshen (1746-1799), Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty who openly practiced various forms of corruption on a grand scale | Proper Noun |
| 三曹 三曹 | the Three Caos (Cao Cao 曹操 and his sons Cao Pi 曹丕 and Cao Zhi 曹植), who established the Wei or Cao Wei dynasty 曹魏, and were all three noted poets and calligraphers | Proper Noun |
| 詹天佑 詹天佑 | Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919), Chinese railroad engineer | Proper Noun |
| 汉学 漢學 | sinology; Chinese studies (in foreign schools); Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics | Proper Noun |
| 五常 五常 | Wuchang, county-level city in Harbin, Heilongjiang; the Permanent Five (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA) | Proper Noun |
| 考工记 考工記 | The Artificer's Record, a technology treaty compiled towards the end of the Spring and Autumn period | Proper Noun |
| 有一些 有一些 | somewhat; rather; some | |
| 男孩儿 男孩兒 | erhua variant of 男孩; boy | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 商 商 | commerce, business, trade | |
| 明 明 | bright, light, brilliant; clear | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of |