暴政
bào zhèng
Pinyin

Definition

暴政
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bào zhèng
  1. tyranny
  2. despotic rule

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

zhèng fǔ
  1. 1 government
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
zhèng zhì
  1. 1 politics
  2. 2 political
zhèng cè
  1. 1 policy
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
Bào
  1. 1 surname Bao
bào lì
  1. 1 violence
  2. 2 force
  3. 3 violent
bào lù
  1. 1 to expose
  2. 2 to reveal
  3. 3 to lay bare
  4. 4 also pr. [pù lù]
fēng bào
  1. 1 storm
  2. 2 violent commotion
  3. 3 fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
xiōng bào
  1. 1 brutal
zhí zhèng
  1. 1 to hold power
  2. 2 in office
zhí zhèng dǎng
  1. 1 ruling party
  2. 2 the party in power
jiā zhèng
  1. 1 housekeeping
jiā bào
  1. 1 domestic violence
  2. 2 abbr. for 家庭暴力[jiā tíng bào lì]
shì zhèng
  1. 1 municipal administration
shì zhèng fǔ
  1. 1 city hall
  2. 2 city government
shì zhèng tīng
  1. 1 city hall
lián zhèng
  1. 1 honest or clean politics
qiáng bào
  1. 1 violent
  2. 2 to rape
zhèng
  1. 1 political
  2. 2 politics
  3. 3 government
zhèng wù
  1. 1 government affairs
Zhèng Xié
  1. 1 CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)
  2. 2 abbr. of 中國人民政治協商會議|中国人民政治协商会议[Zhōng guó Rén mín Zhèng zhì Xié shāng Huì yì]

Idioms (15)

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
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)
不畏强暴
bù wèi qiáng bào
  1. 1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
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
暴虎冯河
bào hǔ píng hé
  1. 1 lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to display foolhardy courage
横征暴敛
héng zhēng bào liǎn
  1. 1 to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
横正暴敛
héng zhèng bào liǎn
  1. 1 to levy exorbitant taxes (idiom)
狂风暴雨
kuáng fēng bào yǔ
  1. 1 howling wind and torrential rain (idiom)
  2. 2 (fig.) difficult, dangerous situation
狂饮暴食
kuáng yǐn bào shí
  1. 1 drunken gluttony (idiom); eating and drinking to excess
脸红筋暴
liǎn hóng jīn bào
  1. 1 red and tense with anger (idiom)
苛政猛于虎
kē zhèng měng yú hǔ
  1. 1 tyrannical government is fiercer than a tiger (idiom)
蠲除苛政
juān chú kē zhèng
  1. 1 to alleviate oppressive administration (idiom)
除暴安良
chú bào ān liáng
  1. 1 to root out the strong and give people peace (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor

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