zhèng zhì yì yì rén shìdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
political dissident
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Original source entry:

政治異議人士 政治异议人士 [zheng4 zhi4 yi4 yi4 ren2 shi4] /political dissident/

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Other forms in these source records: 政治異議人士

  • 政
    zhèng

    political / politics / government

  • 治
    zhì

    to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research

  • 异
    yì

    different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate

  • 议
    yì

    to comment on / to discuss / to suggest

  • 人
  • 士
    shì

    member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker

    Shì

    surname Shi

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