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Chinese symbol for “imperialism”

帝国主义
dì guó zhǔ yì
Traditional: 帝國主義
imperialism

The closest CC-CEDICT match for imperialism is 帝国主义 (dì guó zhǔ yì), defined as: imperialism.

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Characters and stroke order

帝 dì
supreme ruler, emperor; god
radical 50 ⼱ · 9 strokes
国 guó
country, nation, state; national
radical 31 ⼞ · 8 strokes
主 zhǔ
to own; to host; master; host; lord
radical 3 ⼂ · 5 strokes
义 yì
right conduct, propriety; justice
radical 3 ⼂ · 3 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 帝国主义.

WordPinyinMeaning
帝国 (帝國)dì guóempire; imperial
皇帝huáng dìemperor; 个 (gè)
帝王dì wángregent; monarch
大帝dà dìheavenly emperor; "the Great" (title)
称帝 (稱帝)chēng dìto declare oneself emperor; to win the best actor award
国家 (國家)guó jiācountry; nation; state
国际 (國際)guó jìinternational
全国 (全國)quán guówhole nation; nationwide
主要zhǔ yàomain; principal; major; primary
意义 (意義)yì yìsense; meaning

See also: Japanese symbol for “imperialism”.

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.