Chinese symbol for “supremacy”
霸权
bà quán
Traditional: 霸權
hegemony; supremacy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for supremacy is 霸权 (bà quán), defined as: hegemony; supremacy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “supremacy”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 霸权.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 争霸 (爭霸) | zhēng bà | to contend for hegemony; a power struggle |
| 霸王 | bà wáng | hegemon; overlord |
| 霸主 | bà zhǔ | a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); overlord |
| 霸占 (霸佔) | bà zhàn | to occupy by force; to seize |
| 霸道 | bà dào | the Way of the Hegemon; abbr. for 霸王之道 |
| 权利 (權利) | quán lì | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth |
| 权力 (權力) | quán lì | power; authority |
| 政权 (政權) | zhèng quán | regime; political power |
See also: Japanese symbol for “supremacy”.
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.