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清史列传

Qīng shǐ Liè zhuàn

4-character word Traditional 清史列傳

What 清史列传 means

1. Biographic History of Qing Dynasty by a succession of authors, published 1928 and revised 1987, with biographies of 2,900 notable Qing commoner citizens, 80 scrolls

The characters in 清史列传

• 清qīng(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted
• 史shǐhistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
• 列lièto arrange; to line up; file
• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit