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surname Ji / also pr. [Ji4]

order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle

self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa

"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

century / CL:個|个[ge4]

medieval / Middle Ages

(of a person) to get old

end of the century

to be getting on in years / to be of the older generation

world record

final years of the century

party discipline committee

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), organization within the CCP which investigates corruption and other wrongdoing among Party cadres / abbr. for 中共中央紀律檢查委員會|中共中央纪律检查委员会

to break the rules / to break discipline

21st century

20th century

Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago)

Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago) / also written 二疊紀|二叠纪

Memorial Day (American holiday)

the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime

Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)

Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago)

Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago) / also written 三疊紀|三叠纪