| 大日本帝国宪法 | dà rì běn dì guó xiàn fǎ | Meiji |  |
| 美籍 | Měi jí | American (i.e. of US nationality) | |
| 明治 | Míng zhì | Meiji, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (1868-1912) of the Meiji emperor | |
| 明治维新 | Míng zhì Wéi xīn | Meiji Restoration (Japan, 1868) | |
| 大坂 | Dà bǎn | Japanese surname Osaka / old variant of 大阪[Da4 ban3] (Osaka, city in Japan), used prior to the Meiji era | |
| 富国强兵 | fù guó qiáng bīng | lit. rich country, strong army (idiom) / slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei) |  |
| 梅吉 | méi jí | lit. rich country, strong army (idiom) / slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei) | |
| 伊藤·博文 | | ITŌ / Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese Meiji restoration politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin | |
| 废藩置县 | fèi fān zhì xiàn | to abolish the feudal Han and introduce modern prefectures (refers to reorganization during Meiji Japan) | |
| 日本国志 | Rì běn guó zhì | A Record of Japan, by Huang Zunxian 黃遵憲|黄遵宪[Huang2 Zun1 xian4], an extended analysis of Meiji Japan | |
| 黄遵宪 | Huáng Zūn xiàn | Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), Qing dynasty poet and diplomat, author of A Record of Japan 日本國誌|日本国志[Ri4 ben3 Guo2 zhi4], an extended analysis of Meiji Japan | |
| 每季 | měi jì | Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), Qing dynasty poet and diplomat, author of A Record of Japan 日本國誌|日本国志[Ri4 ben3 Guo2 zhi4], an extended analysis of Meiji Japan | |
| 脱亚入欧 | tuō Yà rù Oū | to abandon the old (Asian) ways and learn from Europe / refers to the ideas that led to the Meiji Restoration and Japan's subsequent colonization projects in Asia | |
