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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
heroically sacrificing one's life (idiom) / to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause
constitutionalism
eclecticism
money worship
the attitude of mechanically borrowing (ideas etc)
to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius) / to choose honor over life / would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles
antisemitism
reformism (i.e. favoring gradual change as opposed to revolution)
dogmatism
red tape
neoclassicism
neo-Platonism (philosophical system combining Platonism with mysticism)
neocolonialism
(idiom) to persuade by appealing to principle / to reason with sb on moral grounds
affectionate and true / loyal (idiom)
to make sense / to have meaning / to have significance / meaningful / significant / worthwhile / important / interesting
statistically significant
lit. view a text and interpret (idiom) / to interpret word by word without understanding the meaning / a far-fetched interpretation
selfish departmentalism / departmental selfishness
book worship / bookishness
original meaning / literal sense
to make a pact of brotherhood (from “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” 三國演義|三国演义[]) (idiom)
totalitarianism
extremism
minimalism
righteous struggle
(Tw) sanctimonious person / self-appointed moral arbiter
historical materialism (Marx's theory of history)
historic significance
Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩
colonialism
figurative meaning (of a word)
democrat
nationalist feelings / nationalist sentiment
national socialism / Nazism
democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state)
principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
populism
not to have any meaning / meaningless
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27