Kamus Bahasa Jepang, Mandarin, dan Korea

Emperor Yizong of Tang (833-873), reign name of eighteenth Tang emperor Li Cui 李漼[Li3 Cui3], reigned 859-873

(idiom) melee combat weapons of ancient China, such as swords, spears and halberds

first wife

Huaibin, a county in Xinyang City 信陽市|信阳市[Xin4 yang2 Shi4], Henan

old language; the Classics; Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose; Classical Chinese as a school subject

gyokuro (shaded Japanese green tea); (old) early-morning autumn dew; fine liquor

positive; masculine

to braise; to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water

see 鳳台縣|凤台县[Feng4 tai2 Xian4]

screen test

ballet (loanword)

office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. [shu4]) to sign; to arrange

to absolve sb from guilt; to exonerate; to exculpate

carbon atom

to enlist; to serve in the army

Drepung monastery, Lhasa, Tibet

gravel

(coll.) to show respect; to give face (esp. in public to avoid embarrassment); (often sarcastic) to treat with basic courtesy (implying the recipient is undeserving)

defeatism

jurisdiction

tottering; unsteady

to outsource

secret inner room; bridal room

"Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951–52