垄 lǒng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 龙 — dragon
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
垄断
lǒngduàn
to monopolise
Characters in this word
断 duàn
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 斤 — axe
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 村里只有一家小店，老板几乎垄断了所有日用品的买卖。 Cūn lǐ zhǐyǒu yì jiā xiǎodiàn, lǎobǎn jīhū lǒngduàn le suǒyǒu rìyòngpǐn de mǎimai. There is only one small shop in the village, and its owner has almost a monopoly on the sale of all daily necessities.
- 一家企业如果长期垄断市场，消费者就没有选择。 Yì jiā qǐyè rúguǒ chángqī lǒngduàn shìchǎng, xiāofèizhě jiù méiyǒu xuǎnzé. If one company monopolises the market for a long time, consumers have no choice.
- 这家公司垄断了当地的水果市场，价格一直很高。 Zhè jiā gōngsī lǒngduàn le dāngdì de shuǐguǒ shìchǎng, jiàgé yìzhí hěn gāo. This company has a monopoly on the local fruit market, so prices have always been high.
Related words
- 不断 búduàn continuously; nonstop
- 断 duàn to break; to cut off
- 判断 pànduàn to judge
- 诊断 zhěnduàn to diagnose; diagnosis
- 中断 zhōngduàn to interrupt; to break off
- 当机立断 dāngjīlìduàn to make a prompt decision; to act decisively
- 断定 duàndìng to conclude; to assert
- 断断续续 duànduànxùxù intermittent; off and on
- 断绝 duànjué to cut off; to sever
- 断裂 duànliè to fracture; to break
- 断然 duànrán firm; resolute; absolutely
- 断章取义 duànzhāngqǔyì to quote out of context; to distort by taking out of context