暴君
bào jūn
Pinyin

Definition

暴君
 - 
bào jūn
  1. tyrant
  2. despot

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

君
jūn
  1. 1 monarch
  2. 2 lord
  3. 3 gentleman
  4. 4 ruler
君主
jūn zhǔ
  1. 1 monarch
  2. 2 sovereign
君子
jūn zǐ
  1. 1 nobleman
  2. 2 person of noble character
暴
Bào
  1. 1 surname Bao
暴力
bào lì
  1. 1 violence
  2. 2 force
  3. 3 violent

Idioms (20)

一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span
不畏强暴
bù wèi qiáng bào
  1. 1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
仁人君子
rén rén jūn zǐ
  1. 1 people of good will (idiom); charitable person
以小人之心，度君子之腹
yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zǐ zhī fù
  1. 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
伴君如伴虎
bàn jūn rú bàn hǔ
  1. 1 being close to the sovereign can be as perilous as lying with a tiger (idiom)

Sample Sentences

为了稳固自己的地位。所以说秦始皇是个暴君。
wèile wěngù zìjǐ de dìwèi 。suǒyǐ shuō Qínshǐhuáng shì ge bàojūn 。
In order to stabilize his position. So it is said that Qin Shihuang was a tyrant.
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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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