四项基本原则

1. • the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 dèngxiǎopíng in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism

Character by character

• 四(sì)four
• 项(xiàng)surname Xiang
• 基(jī)base
• 本(běn)root
• 原(yuán)surname Yuan
• 则(zé)then