IDENTITY
政zhèngpolitics; government
HSK 3Top 300
CORE MEANING
politics; government
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.politics; governmentHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 攵strike radical (pū)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰正攵
- upright; correct
- governing hand
USAGE
Common words
政府zhèngfǔgovernment
政治zhèngzhìpolitics
Graded examples
政府关心大家的生活。Zhèngfǔ guānxīn dàjiā de shēnghuó.HSK4
The government cares about people’s lives.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Making things upright (正) by hand (攵) — governing.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #300
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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