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实权 (shí quán): meaning and stroke order

实权 (shí quán) means real power; genuine power.

实权

Simplified
实权
Traditional
實權
Pinyin
shí quán

Stroke order of 实权

实

  • shí real; true
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 實

Stroke by stroke

权

  • Quán surname Quan
  • quán authority; power
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 權

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 实权

  1. shí quán Traditional 實權
    • real power; genuine power

Radicals of the characters

实
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 8 strokes · 宀 on top, 头 below
权
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 6 strokes · 木 on the left, 又 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

实权 in our stories

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  • 最后，他虽然保住了性命，却被贬到了偏远的黄州，当一个没有实权的小官，连工资都少得可怜。

    zuìhòu tā suīrán bǎozhù le xìngmìng què bèi biǎn dào le piānyuǎn de Huángzhōu dāng yí gè méiyǒu shíquán de xiǎo guān lián gōngzī dōu shǎo de kělián

    In the end he kept his life but was demoted to remote Huangzhou as a minor official with no real power, and even his pay was pitifully small.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 实权

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).