(zhèng) - politics, government (bound) in Mandarin
zhèngTraditional: 政
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Translation
politics, government (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the action radical 攵 (a hand with a stick) gives the sense of directing affairs, while 正 (zhèng, correct) supplies both sound and the notion of setting things right, hence governance.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 攵 (action radical) + 正 (zhèng, phonetic)
Stroke order
政
Examples
策。
The government announced a new policy.
。
He is not interested in politics.
策。
This is national policy.
。
He is very interested in politics.
。
She studies politics at university.
政 (zhèng) is a bound morpheme for politics or government, the core of 政府 (zhèngfǔ) and 政治 (zhèngzhì).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 政.
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