Chinese symbol for “politics”
政治
zhèng zhì
politics; political
The closest CC-CEDICT match for politics is 政治 (zhèng zhì), defined as: politics; political.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “politics”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 政治学 (政治學) | zhèng zhì xué | politics; political science |
| 政事 | zhèng shì | politics; government affairs |
| 政 | zhèng | political; politics |
| 国事 (國事) | guó shì | affairs of the nation; politics |
| 政理 | zhèng lǐ | politics; government affairs |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 政治.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 政府 | zhèng fǔ | government; 个 (gè) |
| 政策 | zhèng cè | policy; 个 (gè) |
| 行政 | xíng zhèng | administration; (attributive) administrative; executive |
| 政权 (政權) | zhèng quán | regime; political power |
| 政党 (政黨) | zhèng dǎng | political party; 个 (gè) |
| 治疗 (治療) | zhì liáo | to treat (an illness); medical treatment |
| 统治 (統治) | tǒng zhì | to rule (a country); to govern |
| 治理 | zhì lǐ | to govern; to administer |
See also: Japanese symbol for “politics”.
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.