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四项基本原则

Sì xiàng Jī běn Yuán zé

6-character word Traditional 四項基本原則

What 四项基本原则 means

1. the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping {邓小平|Dèng Xiǎo píng} in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism

The characters in 四项基本原则

• 四sìfour; 4
• 项xiàngback of neck; item; thing
• 基jī(bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry)…
• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this
• 原yuánformer; original; primary
• 则zé(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then…

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