to recur (of a disease) / to reappear / to relapse (into a former bad state)
武术
wǔ shù
military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL:種|种[zhong3]
制服
zhì fú
to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL:套[tao4]
中场
zhōng chǎng
middle period of a tripartite provincial exam (in former times) / midfield / mid-court (in sports) / half-time / intermission half-way through a performance
copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China)
褪去
tuì qù
to take off (one's clothes) / (fig.) to shed (one's former image etc) / (of a fad or the after-effects of a disaster etc) to subside / also pr. [tun4 qu4]
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
the Jockey Club, Hong Kong philanthropic organization (and former gentleman's club)
书馆
shū guǎn
teashop with performance by 評書|评书 / story tellers / (attached to name of publishing houses) / (in former times) private school / library (of classic texts)
Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc
王莽
Wáng Mǎng
Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han
先王
xiān wáng
former kings / former emperors / in Confucian writing, refers esp. to the sage rulers Yao 堯|尧[Yao2], Shun 舜[Shun4], Yu 禹[Yu3], Tang 湯|汤[Tang1] and the kings of Zhou
吴官正
Wú Guān zhèng
Wu Guanzheng (1938-), former CCP Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436)
围场
wéi chǎng
enclosure / pig pen / hunting ground exclusively kept for emperor or nobility (in former times)
汪道涵
Wāng Dào hán
Wang Daohan (1915-2005), former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
xiān