主 zhǔ
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 丶 — dot
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
主义
zhǔyì
doctrine; ideology; -ism
Characters in this word
义 yì
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 丿 — falling stroke
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他批评的并不是理想本身，而是把复杂现实压缩成单一口号的主义。 Tā pīpíng de bìng bú shì lǐxiǎng běnshēn, ér shì bǎ fùzá xiànshí yāsuō chéng dānyī kǒuhào de zhǔyì. What he criticises is not the ideal itself, but the ideology that compresses complex reality into a single slogan.
- 现代人常常把实用主义当作生活的准则。 Xiàndàirén chángcháng bǎ shíyòngzhǔyì dàngzuò shēnghuó de zhǔnzé. Modern people often treat pragmatism as their rule of life.
- 我们应该避免盲目相信任何一种主义。 Wǒmen yīnggāi bìmiǎn mángmù xiāngxìn rènhé yī zhǒng zhǔyì. We should avoid blindly believing in any doctrine.
Related words
- 主人 zhǔrén host; owner
- 主要 zhǔyào main; mainly
- 主持 zhǔchí to host; to lead
- 主动 zhǔdòng active; on one's own initiative
- 主任 zhǔrèn department head
- 主意 zhǔyi idea
- 主张 zhǔzhāng to support; position
- 自主 zìzhǔ independent
- 主题 zhǔtí topic; theme
- 主席 zhǔxí chairperson
- 车主 chēzhǔ car owner
- 为主 wéizhǔ mainly; as the main thing