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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zé | ze2
English translation
rule, law, regulation; grades

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

則 zé

Contains the radical

刂 dāo

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

Laws inscribed 刂 dāo on a slate 貝 bèi

Etymology of 則 zé

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

⿰貝刂

Explanation

Simplified form of 則 zé . Depicts carving inscriptions on bronzeware (鼎 dǐng ) with a knife (刂 dāo ). Based on the original meaning "law". In ancient China, some legal writings were inscribed on bronzeware.

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Words with 則 zé

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
则 zé then則 zé
否则 fǒuzé if not否則
规则 guīzé rule規則
原则 yuánzé principle原則
准则 zhǔnzé norm準則
法则 fǎ zé law法則
守则 shǒu zé rules守則
细则 xì zé bylaws細則
不规则 bù guī zé irregular不規則
原则上 yuán zé shang in principle原則上
实则 shí zé actually實則
以身作则 yǐ shēn zuò zé to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model以身作則
武则天 Wǔ Zé tiān Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705武則天
通则 tōng zé general rule通則
原则性 yuán zé xìng principled原則性
四项基本原则 Sì xiàng Jī běn Yuán zé the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 Dèng Xiǎo píng [Dèng​Xiǎo​píng] in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CPC, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism四項基本原則
附则 fù zé bylaw附則
然则 rán zé then然則
和平共处五项原则 hé píng gòng chǔ wǔ xiàng yuán zé Zhou Enlai's Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence和平共處五項原則
总则 zǒng zé profile總則
欲速则不达 yù sù zé bù dá don't try to run before you can walk欲速則不達
林则徐 Lín Zé xú Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842林則徐
一则 yī zé on the one hand一則
日喀则 Rì kā zé Shigatse or Xigaze, Tibetan: Gzhis ka rtse, city and prefecture in central Tibet日喀則

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