fēng qī yìn zǐ

Traditional: 封妻蔭子

封妻荫子 (fēng qī yìn zǐ) is a Chinese word meaning “to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles”.

Meanings

  1. 1to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles

Characters in 封妻荫子

封fēng · to confer妻qī · (bound form) wife荫yīn · (bound form) shade (of a tree)子zǐ · son

Related words

孩子child儿子son房子house妻子wife and children妻子wife案子long table; counter样子appearance小子(literary) youngster小子(coll.) boy子son子noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"日子day

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