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封建

fēng jiàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

封建 (fēng jiàn) means "system of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 封建 means

1. system of enfeoffment
2. feudalism
3. feudal
4. feudalistic

The characters in 封建

• 封fēngto confer; to grant; to bestow a title
• 建jiànto establish; to found; to set up

Example sentences

• 众所周知，直到上个世纪中叶日本是一个封建国家。
  Zhòngsuǒzhōuzhī, zhídào shàngge shìjì zhōngyè Rìběn shì yī gè fēngjiàn guójiā.
  It is well known that up to the middle of the last century Japan was a feudal state.

Words starting with 封建

• 封建社会fēng jiàn shè huìfeudal society
• 封建主义fēng jiàn zhǔ yìfeudalism
• 封建制度fēng jiàn zhì dùfeudalism
• 封建主fēng jiàn zhǔfeudal ruler
• 封建思想fēng jiàn sī xiǎngfeudal way of thinking
• 封建时代fēng jiàn shí dàifeudal times

Words containing 封建

• 半封建bàn fēng jiànsemifeudal
• 半封建半殖民地bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dìsemifeudal and semicolonial…

Where 封建 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · féng–fēng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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