唯物主义 (唯物主義)
wéi wù zhǔ yì
Pinyin

Definition

唯物主义 (唯物主義)
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wéi wù zhǔ yì
  1. materialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

主
zhǔ
  1. 1 owner
  2. 2 master
  3. 3 host
  4. 4 individual or party concerned
  5. 5 God
  6. 6 Lord
  7. 7 main
  8. 8 to indicate or signify
  9. 9 trump card (in card games)
主人
zhǔ rén
  1. 1 master
  2. 2 host
  3. 3 owner
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
主动
zhǔ dòng
  1. 1 to take the initiative
  2. 2 to do sth of one's own accord
  3. 3 spontaneous
  4. 4 active
  5. 5 opposite: passive 被動|被动[bèi dòng]
  6. 6 drive (of gears and shafts etc)
主持人
zhǔ chí rén
  1. 1 TV or radio presenter
  2. 2 host
  3. 3 anchor
主要
zhǔ yào
  1. 1 main
  2. 2 principal
  3. 3 major
  4. 4 primary

Idioms (20)

一物降一物
yī wù xiáng yī wù
  1. 1 lit. one object bests another object
  2. 2 every item has a weakness (idiom)
  3. 3 there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock
不由自主
bù yóu zì zhǔ
  1. 1 can't help; involuntarily (idiom)
仁民爱物
rén mín ài wù
  1. 1 love to all creatures (idiom, from Mencius); universal benevolence
任人唯亲
rèn rén wéi qīn
  1. 1 to appoint people by favoritism (idiom); nepotism
  2. 2 corrupt appointment
任人唯贤
rèn rén wéi xián
  1. 1 to appoint people according to their merits (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity

Sample Sentences

这逻辑，这思辨，谢谢你啊老婆，我和你的马克思辩证唯物主义哲学老师都要喜极而泣了。
zhè luóji ，zhè sībiàn ，xièxie nǐ ā lǎopó ，wǒ hé nǐ de Mǎ Kèsī biànzhèng wéiwùzhǔyì zhéxué lǎoshī dōuyào xǐjí ér qì le 。
This logic, this critical thinking. Thanks wifey, your Marxist dialectical materialism teacher and I must both be crying tears of joy.
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