"Edict" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 南特敕令 | nán tè chì lìng | Edict |  |
| 天书 | tiān shū | imperial edict / heavenly book (superstition) / obscure or illegible writing / double dutch | |
| 圣旨 | shèng zhǐ | imperial edict |  |
| 诏书 | zhào shū | imperial edict | |
| 下诏 | xià zhào | to hand down an imperial edict | |
| 遗诏 | yí zhào | posthumous edict (of former emperor) | |
| 谕旨 | yù zhǐ | imperial edict | |
| 敕令 | chì lìng | Imperial order or edict (old) | |
| 上谕 | shàng yù | imperial edict | |
| 圣训 | shèng xùn | sage's instructions / imperial edict | |
| 降旨 | jiàng zhǐ | to issue an imperial edict | |
| 诏 |  zhào | (literary) to admonish / (bound form) imperial edict | |
| 编录 | biān lù | to select and edict / to edit extracts | |
| 先帝遗诏 | xiān dì yí zhào | posthumous edict of a former emperor / Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] edict to posterity | |
| 密诏 | mì zhào | secret imperial edict | |
| 敇 | chì | Imperial command or edict | |
| 钦命 | qīn mìng | Imperial order or edict (old) | |
| 圣谕 | shèng yù | imperial edict / see also 上諭|上谕[shang4 yu4] | |
| 诏旨 | zhào zhǐ | imperial edict | |
| 违逆 | wéi nì | to disobey / to defy an edict / to violate / to go against / to run counter to | |
