Pinyin: Guan1 Yu3 Definition: Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty/posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama
Pinyin: Chu3 he2 Han4 jie4 Definition: lit. the river that divides Chu and Han/fig. a line that divides rival territories/the mid-line between sides on a Chinese chessboard
Pinyin: Han4 cheng2 Definition: Hanseong, old name of Seoul as traditional capital of Korea and capital of South Korea/adopted new Chinese spelling 首爾|首尔[Shou3 er3] in 2005
Pinyin: luo2 han4 guo3 Definition: sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii (formerly Momordica grosvenori, a gourd of the Curcubitaceae family), grown in Guangxi and used in Chinese medicine
qing1 - high ranking official (old)/term of endearment between spouses (old)/(from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old)/honorific (old)
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Pinyin: guo2 wu4 qing1 Definition: Secretary of State
Pinyin: qing1 Definition: high ranking official (old)/term of endearment between spouses (old)/(from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old)/honorific (old)
Pinyin: Guan1 Han4 qing1 Definition: Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
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