社

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(bound form) society; organization; agency; (old) god of the land

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

An earth 土 spirit 礻; 礻 also provides the pronunciation

Components 礻土

society · Heisig RSH #901

altar + 土 soil

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
中国特色社会主义	Zhōng guó tè sè shè huì zhǔ yì	socialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to i…
国家社会主义	guó jiā shè huì zhǔ yì	national socialism; Nazism
人文社会学科	rén wén shè huì xué kē	humanities and social sciences
社区大学	shè qū dà xué	community college
社会达尔文主义	shè huì Dá ěr wén zhǔ yì	social Darwinism
人民公社化	rén mín gōng shè huà	collectivization of agriculture (disastrous policy of communist Russia around 1930 and Chi…
社会民主主义	shè huì mín zhǔ zhǔ yì	social democracy
社会行动	shè huì xíng dòng	social actions
中国社会科学院	Zhōng guó Shè huì Kē xué yuàn	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
社会语言学	shè huì yǔ yán xué	sociolinguistics
民族社会主义	mín zú shè huì zhǔ yì	national socialism; Nazism
市民社会	shì mín shè huì	civil society (law)
人民公社	rén mín gōng shè	people's commune
社会主义者	shè huì zhǔ yì zhě	socialist
上流社会	shàng liú shè huì	upper class; high society
社会主义	shè huì zhǔ yì	socialism
社会科学	shè huì kē xué	social sciences
社会工作者	shè huì gōng zuò zhě	social worker
公民社会	gōng mín shè huì	civil society
人文社科	rén wén shè kē	(abbr.) humanities and social sciences