Chinese symbol for “dictatorship”
独裁
dú cái
Traditional: 獨裁
dictatorship
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dictatorship is 独裁 (dú cái), defined as: dictatorship.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “dictatorship”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 专政 (專政) | zhuān zhèng | dictatorship |
| 专制 (專制) | zhuān zhì | autocracy; dictatorship |
| 专权 (專權) | zhuān quán | autocracy; dictatorship |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 独裁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 独立 (獨立) | dú lì | independent; independence |
| 独特 (獨特) | dú tè | unique; distinctive |
| 单独 (單獨) | dān dú | alone; by oneself |
| 独自 (獨自) | dú zì | alone |
| 孤独 (孤獨) | gū dú | lonely; solitary |
| 总裁 (總裁) | zǒng cái | chairman; director-general (of a company etc) |
| 制裁 | zhì cái | to punish; punishment |
| 裁决 (裁決) | cái jué | ruling; adjudication |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dictatorship”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.