基本原则

fundamental doctrine / guiding principle / raison d'être

(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)

basic / fundamental / main / elementary

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara

former / original / primary / raw / level / cause / source

principle / doctrine / CL:個|个[ge4]

(conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but / then / standard / norm / principle / to imitate / to follow / classifier for written items

(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

the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism