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Zhenqing
Zhenqing (真清, 1537–1593) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Ming dynasty who revived Ciyun Temple on Mt. Tiantai and combined Chan, Tiantai, Pure Land, and Vinaya practice.
Zhenwu Army
The Zhenwu Army (振武军) was a Tang dynasty frontier military command, traditionally created in 758 from the Shuofang command to defend the northern border against the Uighur.
Zhenwu decoction
真武汤 (Zhenwu decoction, Zhenwu tang), a classical Chinese medicine formula from the Shanghan Lun with fuling, shaoyao, baizhu, fuzi, and shengjiang; warms yang and promotes urination, mainly studied for chronic heart failure.
Zhenxiong power station
Zhenxiong power station (华电镇雄发电公司) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Zhenxiong County, Zhaotong, Yunnan, China, owned by China Huadian, whose two 600 MW anthracite units entered service in 2011 and 2012.
Zhenya Loginov
Zhenya Loginov is a Partner at Accel in London who joined the firm in 2023 after operating roles at Miro, Segment, and Dropbox, backing companies like Lovable.
Zhenyun Technology (甄云科技)
Zhenyun Technology (甄云科技), formally Shanghai Zhenyun Information Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese digital procurement SaaS company in Shanghai, spun out of HAND Information in 2017 and known for its Going-Link platform.
Zhenzhou
Zhenzhou (真州) was a Song-Yuan prefecture at modern Yizheng, Jiangsu, created in 1013 from Jian'an Army; a Grand Canal-Yangtze grain and salt hub, reduced to Yizhen County in 1369. The name survives as Zhenzhou Town, Yizheng's county seat.
Zheshang Development Group
Zheshang Development Group (浙商中拓集团股份有限公司) is a Chinese bulk-commodity supply-chain company headquartered in Hangzhou and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under ticker 000906, trading steel, energy-chemicals, and other commodities across 89 countries.
Zhety Zhargy
Zhety Zhargy ("Seven Establishments") was the code of customary law of the Kazakh Khanate, compiled in the late 17th century and traditionally attributed to Khan Tauke.
Zhetybay Oil Field
The Zhetybay Oil Field (Жетыбай) is a giant onshore oil field in Mangystau Region, western Kazakhstan, about 80 km southeast of Aktau, discovered in 1961 and producing since 1967.
Zhetysu
Zhetysu (Жетісу), also FC Zhetysu Taldykorgan, is a Kazakh football club founded in 1981 in Taldykorgan; a founding Premier League member, runner-up in 2011, twice First League champion (2006, 2017).
Zhexi Circuit
Zhexi Circuit (浙西) was a Tang dynasty regional command in the lower Yangtze, later the Zhenhai Army, a key source of grain and salt taxes.
Zhexi School
The Zhexi School (浙西词派) was a school of ci poetry centered on western Zhejiang in the early Qing dynasty, led by Zhu Yizun and dominant for over a century.
Zhezong's accession and Gao empress dowager's regency
Zhezong's accession and Gao empress dowager's regency (高太后临朝) was the Northern Song regency in which Empress Dowager Gao governed for the boy Emperor Zhezong, repealing Wang Anshi's New Policies through Sima Guang.
Zheztyrnak Fossae
Zheztyrnak Fossae is a 180 km fossa (graben system) on Venus at 67.5S, 182E, IAU-named in 2000 for a Kazakh evil deity, the 'copper claw' maiden; one of 32 named Venusian fossae.
Zhi clan of Jin
The Zhi clan of Jin (智氏) was a powerful ministerial lineage of the Jin state, exterminated by the Han, Zhao, and Wei clans in 453 BC.
Zhi Li
Zhi Li is a Canadian-based electrochemist and materials engineer, an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton known for aqueous zinc-ion and zinc-air battery research.
Zhi Min Ling
Zhi Min Ling (凌志敏, Ling Zhimin), born 1961, is a Chinese-American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded APsystems, a solar microinverter maker in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, listed on Shanghai's STAR Market.
Zhi Pingfang (Robot Era / Zhi Square)
Zhi Pingfang (智平方, AI² Robotics) is a Shenzhen general intelligent robotics startup founded in 2023 by Guo Yandong, known for the AlphaBot wheeled dual-arm humanoid robot and AlphaBrain AI model.
Zhi Wei Seh
Zhi Wei Seh (Seh Zhi Wei) is a Singapore-based materials scientist and Senior Principal Scientist II at A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, known for the first yolk-shell nanostructure in lithium-sulfur batteries.
Zhi-Xun Shen
Zhi-Xun Shen, born 1962, is a Chinese-born condensed matter physicist and Paul Pigott Professor at Stanford, known for ARPES studies of superconductors and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Zhi‐Gang Chen
Zhi-Gang Chen is an Australian-based energy materials researcher and Capacity Building Professor at Queensland University of Technology, working on thermoelectric materials that convert heat into electricity.
Zhi‐Kuang Tan
Zhi-Kuang Tan is a Singapore-based chemist and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for inventing the first perovskite-based light-emitting diode in 2014 at Cambridge.
Zhibai wuzhu coin (直百五铢)
The zhibai wuzhu (直百五铢) is a bronze coin issued by Liu Bei's Shu Han regime in 214, valued at one hundred wuzhu while weighing only a few times as much.
Zhibek Planitia
Zhibek Planitia is a 2,000-km-wide lowland plain on Venus at 40°S, 157°E, named in 1997 for the Kazakh epic heroine Kyz-Zhibek, part of the trough around Artemis Chasma.
Zhibin Guan
Zhibin Guan is a polymer chemist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for chain-walking polymerization catalysis and self-healing, recyclable polymers for mixed plastic waste.
Zhice
Zhice (智策, 1117–1192), known by the sobriquet Tuodu, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the Linji lineage in the Southern Song dynasty, summoned to Jingshan in 1188.
Zhicheng
Zhicheng (智称) was a Vinaya-specialist monk of China's Southern Dynasties who lectured on the Ten Recitations Vinaya more than thirty times and died in 501 at seventy-two.
Zhichuan Jason Xu
Zhichuan Jason Xu (Zhichuan J. Xu, 徐梽川) is a Singapore-based electrochemist and President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University, known for work on electrocatalysis and electron spin in catalysis.
Zhidun
Zhidun (支遁), courtesy name Daolin, was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Eastern Jin dynasty, 314 to 366, a leading exponent of Buddhist xuanxue and an early Buddhist poet.