榜

to row / oar / Taiwan pr. [beng4]

to whip / Taiwan pr. [beng4]

notice or announcement / list of names / public roll of successful examinees

variant of 榜[bang3]

one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

example / model / CL:個|个[ge4]

the charts (of best-sellers) / table of ranking

top of the list

to flaunt / to advertise / to parade / boost / excessive praise

honor roll

to fail the imperial exams / to flunk

to win top marks in the imperial examinations

candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination / see 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]

ranking / ordered list / top 20 / roll of honor / to come nth out of 100

Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2] overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc

to publish a roll-call of successful candidates

to publish class list of successful exam candidates