愚民政策

Chinese

		ignorant people; the ignorant masses; to keep the people ignorant ignorant people; the ignorant masses; to keep the people ignorant; to stultify the masses; to engage in obscurantism	policy
trad. (愚民政策)		愚民	政策
simp. #(愚民政策)		愚民	政策

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yúmín zhèngcè

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄓㄥˋ ㄘㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴ man⁴ zing³ caak³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yúmín zhèngcè
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄓㄥˋ ㄘㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yúmín jhèngcè
    • Wade–Giles: yü²-min² chêng⁴-tsʻê⁴
    • Yale: yú-mín jèng-tsè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yumin jenqtseh
    • Palladius: юйминь чжэнцэ (jujminʹ čžɛncɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵ min³⁵ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴ man⁴ zing³ caak³
    • Yale: yùh màhn jing chaak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴ man⁴ dzing³ tsaak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴ men⁴ jing³ cag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹ mɐn²¹ t͡sɪŋ³³ t͡sʰaːk̚³/

Noun

愚民政策

1. policy with the aim of keeping the people ignorant and thus easily subjugated; obscurantism

   • 所以皇帝和大臣有「愚民政策」，百姓們也自有其「愚君政策」。 [MSC, trad.]
     所以皇帝和大臣有「愚民政策」，百姓们也自有其「愚君政策」。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: Lu Xun, 《談皇帝》

     Suǒyǐ huángdì hé dàchén yǒu “yúmínzhèngcè”, bǎixìng men yě zìyǒu qí “yú jūn zhèngcè”. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

See also

• 蒙昧主義／蒙昧主义 (méngmèizhǔyì)

Korean

Hanja in this term
愚	民	政	策

Noun

愚民政策 • (umin jeongchaek) (hangeul 우민 정책)

1. hanja form^? of 우민 정책 (“obscurantism”)