篡 (cuàn): to seize, to usurp
篡 (cuàn) is a Chinese character meaning “to seize.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 算 (phonetic) and 厶 (semantic). It ranks #3293 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 篡 private. Its radical form 竹 (bamboo) appears in many related characters such as 第 (dì, (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth")), 等 (děng, to wait for), 笑 (xiào, to laugh).
Definitions
- to seize
- to usurp
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 篡改verb | cuàn gǎi | to tamper with |
| 篡夺verb | cuàn duó | to usurp |
| 篡权verb | cuàn quán | to usurp power |
| 篡位verb | cuàn wèi | to seize the throne |
| 篡军 | cuàn jūn | to usurp the military |
| 篡立 | cuàn lì | to become an unlawful ruler |
| 篡政 | cuàn zhèng | to usurp political power |
| 篡党 | cuàn dǎng | to usurp the leadership of the party |
| 篡弑 | cuàn shì | to commit regicide |
| 篡窃 | cuàn qiè | to usurp |
| 篡贼 | cuàn zéi | usurper |
| 篡逆verb | cuàn nì | to rebel |
篡 appears in 12 compound words: 100 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Example Sentences
篡字由16笔画组成,结构很巧妙。
cuàn zì yóu bǐ huà zǔ chéng , jié gòu hěn qiǎo miào .
The character "篡" consists of 16 strokes and has a very ingenious structure.
但这和开外挂有着本质区别,AI 不会代替我们赢得战斗,更不会篡改游戏数值。
dàn zhè hé kāi wài guà yǒu zhe běn zhì qū bié , A I bù huì dài tì wǒ men yíng dé zhàn dǒu , gēng bù huì cuàn gǎi yóu xì shǔ zhí .
But this is fundamentally different from using cheats; AI won’t win battles for us, much less tamper with game statistics.
攻击者可以读取甚至篡改这份在 DRAM 中的微码副本。
gōng jī zhě kě yǐ dòu qǔ shèn zhì cuàn gǎi zhè fèn zài D R A M zhōng de wēi mǎ fù běn .
An attacker can read or even tamper with this copy of the microcode stored in DRAM.
它不仅保护数据不被随意篡改,更保护了思考的原始性。
tā bù jǐn bǎo hù shǔ jù bù bèi suí yì cuàn gǎi , gēng bǎo hù le sī kǎo de yuán shǐ xìng .
Not only does it protect data from being tampered with at will, but it also safeguards the originality of thought.
...良和宋美龄都曾收藏的一幅画 雍正用它平息篡位丑闻估价6亿
. . . liáng hé sòng měi líng dōu céng shōu zàng de yī fú huà Yōng zhèng yòng tā píng xī cuàn wèi chǒu wén gū jià 6 yì
...A painting once owned by Liang and Soong Mei-ling; Yongzheng used it to quell a scandal involving an attempted coup; estimated value: 600 million
Character Family
竹 Radical Family — Characters sharing the bamboo radical
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