压 制

yāzhì

“To suppress” in Chinese is 压制 (yāzhì).

Meaning

to suppress
to inhibit
to stifle

Example

法国是在试图压制阿尔及利亚的发展吗？

Is France trying to suppress Algeria's development?

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

yāHSK 36 strokesto press zhìHSK 38 strokessystem

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