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Chen's Records is the chronologically final text of the "Four Histories" (四史), which together influenced and served as a model for Korean and Japanese official histories. [11] The Records are important to the research of early Korean (삼국지 Samguk ji) and Japanese history (三国志 Sangokushi).
The House of Yi, also called the Yi dynasty (also transcribed as the Lee dynasty), was the royal family of the Joseon dynasty and later the imperial family of the Korean Empire, descended from the Joseon founder Yi Seong-gye. All of his descendants are members of the Jeonju Yi clan.
Other close advisers to the emperor included Jian Yi (Minister of Personnel from 1402–1422 and 1423–1435) [13] and Xia Yuanji (Minister of Revenue from 1402–1421 and 1424–1430). [7] [13] Even after the Xuande Emperor's death, the composition of the most influential officials and the grand secretaries remained unchanged. As a result, the ...
Meaning: implies rapid changes; one day equals a thousand years; 一 (yí) 日 (rì) 千 (qiān) 里 (lǐ) : "One day, a thousand miles." Meaning: implies rapid progress; traveling a thousand miles in a day; 一 (yí) 日 (rì) 三 (sān) 秋 (qiū) : "One day, three autumns." Meaning: greatly missing someone; one day feels as long as three years
The Dongyi or Eastern Yi (Chinese: 東夷; pinyin: Dōngyí) was a collective term for ancient peoples found in Chinese records.The definition of Dongyi varied across the ages, but in most cases referred to inhabitants of eastern China, then later, the Korean peninsula and Japanese Archipelago.
The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary is a kanji dictionary based on the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Jack Halpern at the CJK Dictionary Institute and published by Kenkyūsha. Originally published in 1999 (with a minor update in 2001), a Revised and Updated Edition was issued on 2013, reflecting the new changes in the jōyō ...
Sino-Korean words constitute a large portion of South Korean vocabulary, the remainder being native Korean words and loanwords from other languages, such as Japanese and English to a lesser extent. Sino-Korean words are typically used in formal or literary contexts, [5] and to express abstract or complex ideas. [7] All Korean surnames and most ...
In 1901, Korea deployed police in Jiandao, and this continued until 1906. [7] The Korean Government sent Yi Beom-yun, who was not part of the Imperial Korean Army, as a Jiandao observer to invade Jiandao in 1903. [8] In Jiandao, Yi established Sa-po dae, which was a militia consisting of both a righteous army, and Imperial