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HSK 5
矛
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (15)
矛柄
máobǐng
shaft
长矛
chángmáo
pike
矛头
máotóu
spearhead
矛隼
máosǔn
(Chinese bird species) gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)
矛盾
máodùn
contradiction
闹矛盾
nàomáodùn
to be at loggerheads
矛斑蝗莺
máobānhuángyīng
(Chinese bird species) lanceolated warbler (Locustella lanceolata)
内部矛盾
nèibùmáodùn
internal contradiction
矛头指向
máotóuzhǐxiàng
to target sb or sth (for attack, criticism etc)
自相矛盾
zìxiāngmáodùn
to contradict oneself
矛纹草鹛
máowéncǎoméi
(Chinese bird species) Chinese babax (Babax lanceolatus)
敌我矛盾
díwǒmáodùn
contradictions between ourselves and the enemy
人民内部矛盾
rénmínnèibùmáodùn
internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge)
以子之矛，攻子之盾
yǐzǐzhīmáo,gōngzǐzhīdùn
lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi [[韓非子|韩非子]]); turning a weapon against its owner
正确处理人民内部矛盾
zhèngquèchǔlǐrénmínnèibùmáodùn
On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 5
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,440
- Word Frequency Rank
- 8,338 of 84,292
- Radical Number
- 110