| 赵紫阳 |
Zhào Zǐ yáng |
Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then |
| 赵 |
Zhào |
surname Zhao / one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC) / the Former Zhao 前赵 (304–329) and Later Zhao 后赵 (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms |
| 赵 |
zhào |
to surpass (old) |
| 紫 |
zǐ |
purple / violet |
| 紫阳 |
Zǐ yáng |
see 紫阳县 |
| 阳 |
yáng |
positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 阴 |