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独裁

dú cái

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 獨裁

What 独裁 means

1. dictatorship

The characters in 独裁

• 独dúalone; independent; single
• 裁cáito cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim

Example sentences

• 我不是独裁者。
  Wǒ bù shì dúcáizhě.
  I'm not a dictator.
• 民主主义是多数选举的独裁。
  Mínzhǔzhǔyì shì duōshù xuǎnjǔ de dúcái.
  Democracy is the dictatorship of the majority.
• 可怜的人民任凭残暴的独裁者处置。
  Kělián de rénmín rènpíng cánbào de dúcáizhě chǔzhì.
  The poor people were at the mercy of the cruel dictator.
• 就算独裁国家是“闭上你的嘴”，民主国家才是“当你放屁”。
  Jiùsuàn dúcái guójiā shì "bìshang nǐ de zuǐ ", mínzhǔ guójiā cái shì "dāng nǐ fàngpì ".
  Dictatorship can be summed up by "shut up!", democracy by "keep talking".

Words starting with 独裁

• 独裁者dú cái zhědictator; autocrat

Where 独裁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dòng–dū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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