unspoken rules (usually ones that codify improper behaviors such as leveraging guanxi to get favorable treatment, or coercing employees for sexual favors)
trad. 潛規則
Also written 潛規則【qián guī zé】
Characters in this word
3潜
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hidden, secret, latent, to hide, to conceal, to submerge, to dive
- Pinyin
- qián
- Traditional
- 潛
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 31359 of 2500
规
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variant of 規|规[gui1]
- Pinyin
- guī
- Traditional
- 槼
- Strokes
- 8
则
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(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then, (bound form) standard; norm, (bound form) principle, (literary) to imitate; to follow, classifier for written items
- Pinyin
- zé
- Traditional
- 則
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2398 of 2500