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修Xiū昔xī底dǐ德dé陷xiàn阱jǐng

  1. Thucydides Trap (theory that war may result when a rising power threatens to displace an established power)

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Characters in this word

6
修
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname Xiu

Pinyin
Xiū
Strokes
9
Frequency
3005 of 2500
Words starting with 修Words ending in 修Anywhere in a word
昔
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname Xi

Pinyin
Xī
Strokes
8
Words starting with 昔Words ending in 昔Anywhere in a word
底
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(equivalent to 的 as possessive particle)

Pinyin
de
Strokes
8
Frequency
10646 of 2500
Words starting with 底Words ending in 底Anywhere in a word
德
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

Germany, German, abbr. for 德國|德国[De2 guo2]

Pinyin
Dé
Strokes
15
Frequency
1146 of 2500
Words starting with 德Words ending in 德Anywhere in a word
陷
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pitfall, trap, to get stuck, to sink, to cave in, to frame (false charge), to capture (a city in battle), to fall (to the enemy), defect

Pinyin
xiàn
Strokes
10
Frequency
18913 of 2500
Words starting with 陷Words ending in 陷Anywhere in a word
阱
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

variant of 阱[jing3]

Pinyin
jǐng
Traditional
穽
Strokes
6
Words starting with 阱Words ending in 阱Anywhere in a word