当政 (當政)
dāng zhèng
Pinyin

Definition

当政 (當政)
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dāng zhèng
  1. to come to power
  2. to hold power
  3. in office

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

政府
zhèng fǔ
  1. 1 government
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
政治
zhèng zhì
  1. 1 politics
  2. 2 political
政策
zhèng cè
  1. 1 policy
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
执政
zhí zhèng
  1. 1 to hold power
  2. 2 in office
执政党
zhí zhèng dǎng
  1. 1 ruling party
  2. 2 the party in power

Idioms (6)

上有政策，下有对策
shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè
  1. 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
勤政廉政
qín zhèng lián zhèng
  1. 1 honest and industrious government functionaries (idiom)
垂帘听政
chuí lián tīng zhèng
  1. 1 lit. to govern from behind the curtain
  2. 2 to rule in place of the emperor (idiom)
政通人和
zhèng tōng rén hé
  1. 1 efficient government, people at peace (idiom); all is well with the state and the people
苛政猛于虎
kē zhèng měng yú hǔ
  1. 1 tyrannical government is fiercer than a tiger (idiom)

Sample Sentences

那全是因为唐朝皇帝都很开放和自信，有胸怀！像李白那样什么话都敢说的诗人，要是在暴君当政的时候，脑袋被砍一千次都不止！
nà quán shì yīnwèi Tángcháo huángdì dōu hěn kāifàng hé zìxìn ，yǒu xiōnghuái ！xiàng Lǐ Bái nàyàng shénme huà dōu gǎnshuō de shīrén ，yàoshì zài bàojūn dāngzhèng de shíhou ，nǎodài bèi kǎn yī qiān cì dōu bùzhǐ ！
That's entirely because Tang dynasty emperors were very liberal and self-confident. They had a lot of heart! If a poet like Li Bai who dared to say anything had lived during a brutal military dictatorship, they would've chopped his head into thousands of little pieces!
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