辟

king / monarch / to enlist / to repel / to avoid

law / variant of 闢|辟[pi4]

to open (a door) / to open up (for development) / to dispel / to refute / to repudiate

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

person representing the dead (during burial ceremonies) / to put a corpse on display (after execution) / variant of 屍|尸[shi1] / corpse

corpse

surname Xin

(of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa

Character component without intrinsic meaning

to open up / to set up / to establish

to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古[Pan2 gu3] creation myth

clear and penetrating (e.g. analysis) / incisive / insightful

to blaze a new trail (idiom); to display originality

to recover one's power or authority / restoration (of a past regime)

to stand off / to make way

profound, thorough and moving

pioneer / groundbreaker

lit. to open a room / fig. to settle in a quiet room / behind closed doors

to discuss behind closed doors

Manchu Restoration of 1917, see 張勳復辟|张勋复辟[Zhang1 Xun1 Fu4 bi4]

to take an alternate route (idiom) / to find an alternative / to take a different approach / to blaze a new trail

death sentence / crime punishable by death

Manchu Restoration of 1917, an attempt by general 張勳|张勋[Zhang1 Xun1] to reinstate the monarchy in China by restoring the abdicated emperor Puyi 溥儀|溥仪[Pu3 yi2] to the throne