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"Empress Dowager" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
太后 tài hòu Empress Dowager syn
皇太后 皇太後 huáng tài hòu empress dowager syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
皇后 huáng hòu empress / imperial consort syn
女皇 nǚ huáng empress syn
娘娘 niáng niang queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt syn
佛爷 佛爺 fó ye Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4] syn
天后 tiān hòu Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖[Ma1 zu3] / Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)
慈禧 cí xǐ Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)
武则天 武則天 wǔ zé tiān Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705
宫主 宮主 gōng zhǔ imperial empress / milady
慈禧太后 cí xǐ tài hòu Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
王太后 wáng tài hòu Queen Dowager (in Europe) / widowed queen / Queen mother
安德海 ān dé hǎi An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后
老佛爷 老佛爺 lǎo fó yé title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4] syn
叶卡捷琳娜 葉卡捷琳娜 yè kǎ jié lín nà Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name) / Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia
美智子 měi zhì zǐ Michiko, Japanese female given name / Empress Michiko of Japan (1934-)
董卓 dǒng zhuó Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布
戊戌政变 戊戌政變 wù xū zhèng biàn coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4] ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
临朝 臨朝 lín cháo to hold a court audience / to govern from the imperial throne (applies esp. to Empress Dowager or Regent)
慈安太后 cí ān tài hòu Empress Dowager Ci'an (1837-1881) of Qing
女皇帝 nǚ huáng dì empress / refers to Tang empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天 (624-705), reigned 690-705
凤体 鳳體 fèng tǐ (archaic) empress's body / empress's physical condition
太夫人 tài fū rén (old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
富贵包 富貴包 fù guì bāo dowager's hump
嫄 yuán name of an empress
狄奥多拉皇后 狄奧多拉皇后 dí ào duō lā huáng hòu Empress
窦皇后 竇皇后 dòu huáng hòu Empress
郭圣通 郭聖通 guō shèng tōng Empress
胡太后 hú tài hòu Empress
继皇后 繼皇后 jì huáng hòu Empress
隆裕太后 lóng yù tài hòu Empress
闵妃 閔妃 mǐn fēi Empress
尉迟炽繁 尉遲熾繁 wèi chí chì fán Empress
萧皇后 蕭皇后 xiāo huáng hòu Empress
孝仪纯皇后 孝儀純皇后 xiào yí chún huáng hòu Empress
伊琳娜女皇 yī lín nuó nǚ huáng Empress
元乐尚 元樂尚 yuán lè shàng Empress
张皇后 張皇后 zhāng huáng hòu Empress
长孙皇后 長孫皇后 zhǎng sūn huáng hòu Empress
乾陵 qián líng Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市|咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天
册立 冊立 cè lì to confer a title on (an empress or a prince) syn
哀家 āi jiā I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas)
帝后 dì hòu empress / imperial consort
张易之 張易之 zhāng yì zhī Zhang Yizhi (-705), Tang dynasty politician and favorite of Empress Wu Zetian 武則天|武则天[Wu3 Ze2 tian1]
曌 zhào name invented for herself by Tang empress Wu Zetian 武則天|武则天[Wu3 Ze2 tian1]
梓童 zǐ tóng (often used in traditional novels) term used by an emperor to address the empress
武士彟 武士彠 wǔ shì huò Wu Shihuo (7th century), father of Tang empress Wu Zetian 武則天|武则天
孝圣宪 孝聖憲 xiào shèng xiàn Empress Xiaoshengxian (1693-1777), consort of Emperor Yongzheng 雍正[Yong1 zheng4] and mother of Emperor Qianlong 乾隆[Qian2 long2]
正宫娘娘 正宮娘娘 zhèng gōng niáng niáng empress
六宫 六宮 liù gōng empress and imperial concubines or their residence
后冠 hòu guān crown or tiara of a queen, empress or beauty pageant winner / first place in a women's competition
婕妤 jié yú second-rank concubine (title for an imperial concubine ranked two levels below the empress)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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