Hottest Chinese words, phrases of 2018

China released its words and phrases of 2018 on Thursday.

Words and characters on the list related to domestic topics include "struggle," "40 years of reform and opening-up," while those related to international issues include "withdraw," and "trade friction."

The campaign, whose organizers include the National Language Resource Monitoring and Research Center, the Commercial Press and CCTV news, received thousands of different words and characters proposed between November 20 and December 3 by netizens nationwide.

Editor：梁子硕