枕块 | zhen3 kuai4 | pillow of clay (used by filial son during Confucian mourning period) |
林则徐 | lin2 ze2 xu2 | Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu Commissioner Lin (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842 |
林旭 | lin2 xu4 | Lin Xu, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌å…å›å of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 |
林纾 | lin2 shu1 | Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into classical Chinese |
枚乘 | mei2 cheng2 | Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet |
柏蒂切利 | bo2 di4 qie4 li4 | Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Italian painter of the Florentine school |
柏辽兹 | bo2 liao2 zi1 | Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique |
柳北 | liu3 bei3 | Liubei district of Liuzhou city 柳州市[Liu3 zhou1 shi4], Guangxi |
柳南 | liu3 nan2 | Liunan district of Liuzhou city 柳州市[Liu3 zhou1 shi4], Guangxi |
柳青 | liu3 qing1 | Liu Qing (1916-1978), writer |
格式塔 | ge2 shi4 ta3 | total |
桀王 | jie2 wang2 | King Jie, the final ruler of the Xia dynasty (until c. 1600 BC), a notoriously cruel and immoral tyrant |
桃园结义 | tao2 yuan2 jie2 yi4 | peach garden brotherly oath |