阿黑門尼德王朝

Achaemenid Empire of Persian (559-330 BC)

abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]

black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)

abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]

prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]

flatter

(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with

Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)

Germany / German / abbr. for 德國|德国[De2 guo2]

virtue / goodness / morality / ethics / kindness / favor / character / kind

variant of 德[de2]

variant of 德[de2]

abbr. for 朝鮮|朝鲜[Chao2 xian3] Korea

imperial or royal court / government / dynasty / reign of a sovereign or emperor / court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor / to make a pilgrimage to / facing / towards

morning

king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

to rule / to reign over

dynasty

gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)