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Chinese symbol for “regime”

政权
zhèng quán
Traditional: 政權
regime; political power

The closest CC-CEDICT match for regime is 政权 (zhèng quán), defined as: regime; political power.

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Characters and stroke order

政 zhèng
government, politics
radical 66 ⽁ · 9 strokes
权 quán
authority, power, right
radical 75 ⽊ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “regime”

WordPinyinMeaning
统治 (統治)tǒng zhìto rule (a country); to govern
养生法 (養生法)yǎng shēng fǎregime (diet)
政柄zhèng bǐngat the helm of state; political power

Related words

Other words that share a character with 政权.

WordPinyinMeaning
政府zhèng fǔgovernment; 个 (gè)
政治zhèng zhìpolitics; political
政策zhèng cèpolicy; 个 (gè)
行政xíng zhèngadministration; (attributive) administrative; executive
政党 (政黨)zhèng dǎngpolitical party; 个 (gè)
权利 (權利)quán lìright (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth
权力 (權力)quán lìpower; authority
人权 (人權)rén quánhuman rights

See also: Japanese symbol for “regime”.

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.