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right (i.e. an entitlement to sth) / (classical) power and wealth
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *權* | 權* | *權
authority / power / right / (literary) to weigh / expedient / temporary
HSK 6
power / authority
HSK 6
human rights
HSK 6
regime / political power
HSK 6
to authorize
HSK 7-9
authority / authoritative / power and prestige
HSK 7-9
prerogative / privilege / privileged
HSK 7-9
authority / power over others
HSK 7-9
to infringe the rights of / to violate / infringement
HSK 7-9
sovereignty
HSK 7-9
rights / interests / rights and benefits
HSK 7-9
to consider / to weigh (a matter) / to balance (pros and cons)
HSK 7-9
creditor country
international human rights norms
power / might
copyright
discretion / discretionary power
immunity from prosecution
Sir Donald Tsang, aka Tsang Yam-Kuen (1944–), the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong (2005–2012)
abuse of power
right of way
patent right
scope of authority; extent of power; (access etc) privileges
person in power / the one with authority / the guy in charge
veto power
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *權* | 權* | *權
surname Quan
equity shares / stock right
hegemonism
suffrage / voting rights
ownership / possession / property rights / title (to property)
Sun Yat-sen's Five-power constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan / The five courts or are 行政院 Executive yuan, 立法院 Legislative yuan, 司法院 Judicial yuan, 考試院|考试院 Examination yuan, 監察院|监察院 Control yuan
right to vote / vote
copyright
intellectual property rights (law)
creditor's rights (law)
temporarily / for the time being
bill of rights
civil liberties
totalitarianism
property right
economic rights (e.g. of a state monopoly)
privacy right
usage rights
power / influence
to have no right / to have no authority
authority over the household
full powers / total authority / plenipotentiary powers
to abuse power to crush the law
air rights
separation of powers
equal rights
authority / power / authoritarianism / authoritarian
(math.) to weight / weighting / weighted (average, index etc)
to wield (political etc) power / be in power
tort; infringement (of sb's rights)
right of abode (law)
trickery / tactics
property ownership or right / financial power / financial control
real power; genuine power
to have the right to / to be entitled to / to have authority / powerful
influential officials / bigwigs
the power to act independently; autonomy; the right of self-determination
military leadership / military power
power struggle
the right of speech
priestcraft
power
suffrage / right to vote
right of inheritance
totalitarian
centralized power (history), e.g. under an Emperor or party
scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
ruler / those in power / the authorities
expedient
Human Rights law (Hong Kong)
Megrez; Delta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper
administrative authority / executive power
(literary) temporarily
abuse of power
to be in a position of power
jurisdiction
plan of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift stratagem / interim step
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
to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)
to waive a right / to abstain (from voting) / (sports) to forfeit (a game); to voluntarily withdraw from a match
sovereignty / dominion / dominance
centralized state power
the right to autonomy / autonomy
to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom) / to surrender territory under humiliating terms
civil rights / citizenship rights
to do whatever is expedient
the right to be elected / the right to stand for election
initiative (as in "seize the initiative") / advantageous position that allows one to call the shots
air supremacy; air superiority
to arrogate power
a plenipotentiary (representative)
to act temporarily as
(finance) to adjust the price, volume etc of a security (typically to account for a stock split or after new shares are issued)

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