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right (i.e. an entitlement to sth) / (classical) power and wealth
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *权* | 权* | *权
authority / power / right / (literary) to weigh / expedient / temporary
HSK 6
power / authority
HSK 6
regime / political power
HSK 6
human rights
HSK 6
to authorize
HSK 7-9
rights / interests / rights and benefits
HSK 7-9
to infringe the rights of / to violate / infringement
HSK 7-9
sovereignty
HSK 7-9
authority / power over others
HSK 7-9
authority / authoritative / power and prestige
HSK 7-9
to consider / to weigh (a matter) / to balance (pros and cons)
HSK 7-9
prerogative / privilege / privileged
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *权* | 权* | *权
surname Quan
centralized power (history), e.g. under an Emperor or party
to defend (legal) rights
equity shares / stock right
hegemony / supremacy
to devolve authority to lower levels
(finance) option
scope of authority; extent of power; (access etc) privileges
copyright
property right
warrant (finance)
to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom) / to surrender territory under humiliating terms
separation of powers
power
creditor's rights (law)
to seize power
royalty / royal power
real power; genuine power
to waive a right / to abstain (from voting) / (sports) to forfeit (a game); to voluntarily withdraw from a match
women's rights
to weigh the pros and cons (idiom)
power / might
(literary) temporarily
imperial power
divine right (of kings)
equal rights
full powers / total authority / plenipotentiary powers
to do whatever is expedient
military leadership / military power
trickery / tactics
authority
power and position (politics)
influential officials / bigwigs
authority / power / authoritarianism / authoritarian
Minquan county in Shangqiu 商丘, Henan
civil liberties
monarchical power
to go beyond one's authority / arrogation
power / authority
power / influence
authorized / entrusted (with authority)
art of politics / political tricks (often derog.) / power play / to play at politics / underhand trickery
to wield (political etc) power / be in power
scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
to hold power
position / authority / responsibility
property ownership or right / financial power / financial control
autocracy / dictatorship
temporarily / for the time being
totalitarian
a plenipotentiary (representative)
plan of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift stratagem / interim step
expedient
to concentrate power in one's own hands
religious rule
to sprout / (fig). to begin / beginning
obsessed by a craving for power / power-hungry
clan authority / clan power
to adapt to circumstances
economic rights (e.g. of a state monopoly)
Sun Quan (reigned 222-252), southern warlord and king of state of Wu 吳|吴 in the Three Kingdoms period
weight (i.e. importance attached to sth)
to act as if / to treat sth as if it were
(finance) to adjust the price, volume etc of a security (typically to account for a stock split or after new shares are issued)
stratagem of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift plan / interim step
ownership / possession / property rights / title (to property)
Game of Thrones (TV series) / abbr. for 權力的遊戲|权力的游戏
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Megrez; Delta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper
control (as in "to win control")
to act temporarily as
extent of one's rights / limits of one's authority
World Intellectual Property Organization
abuse of power
privacy right
(computing) authentication
Zuoquan county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中, Shanxi
Liu Gongquan (778-865), Tang calligrapher
feminism
to abuse one's authority; to misuse power
copyright
property rights
initiative (as in "seize the initiative") / advantageous position that allows one to call the shots
weighted average
to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces
immunity from prosecution

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