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主义

zhǔ yì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 主義

主义 (zhǔ yì) means "-ism; ideology". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 主义 means

1. -ism
2. ideology

The characters in 主义

• 主zhǔowner; master; host
• 义yìjustice; righteousness; meaning

Example sentences

• 共产主义必胜。
  Gòngchǎnzhǔyì bìshèng.
  Communism will win.
• 共产主义必胜！
  Gòngchǎnzhǔyì bìshèng!
  Communism will win!
• 这是共产主义。
  This is communism.
• 资本主义是贫穷。
  Zīběnzhǔyì shì pínqióng.
  Capitalism is poverty.
• 我是素食主义者。
  I am a vegetarian.
• 我喜欢超现实主义
  I like surrealism.

Words containing 主义

• 社会主义shè huì zhǔ yìsocialism
• 资本主义zī běn zhǔ yìcapitalism
• 共产主义gòng chǎn zhǔ yìcommunism
• 帝国主义dì guó zhǔ yìimperialism
• 马克思主义Mǎ kè sī zhǔ yìMarxism
• 恐怖主义kǒng bù zhǔ yìterrorism
• 自由主义zì yóu zhǔ yìliberalism
• 民族主义mín zú zhǔ yìnationalism; national self-determination; principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun…
• 爱国主义ài guó zhǔ yìpatriotism
• 现实主义xiàn shí zhǔ yìrealism
• 人道主义rén dào zhǔ yìhumanism; humanitarian (aid)
• 马列主义Mǎ Liè zhǔ yìMarxism-Leninism
• 浪漫主义làng màn zhǔ yìromanticism
• 理想主义lǐ xiǎng zhǔ yìidealism
• 军国主义jūn guó zhǔ yìmilitarism
• 修正主义xiū zhèng zhǔ yìrevisionism
• 唯物主义wéi wù zhǔ yìmaterialism, philosophical doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality
• 三民主义Sān mín zhǔ yìDr Sun Yat-sen's 孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s)
• 个人主义gè rén zhǔ yìindividualism
• 形式主义xíng shì zhǔ yìformalism (in philosophy, art, or literary theory)…
• 官僚主义guān liáo zhǔ yìbureaucracy
• 实用主义shí yòng zhǔ yìpragmatism
• 殖民主义zhí mín zhǔ yìcolonialism
• 无政府主义wú zhèng fǔ zhǔ yìanarchism

Sounds the same

Read zhǔ yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 属意to set one's heart on; to set one's choice on

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