Chinese symbol for “constitutional”
宪制
xiàn zhì
Traditional: 憲制
system of constitutional government; (attributive) constitutional
The closest CC-CEDICT match for constitutional is 宪制 (xiàn zhì), defined as: system of constitutional government; (attributive) constitutional.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 宪制.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宪法 (憲法) | xiàn fǎ | constitution (of a country); measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 宪章 (憲章) | xiàn zhāng | charter |
| 宪政 (憲政) | xiàn zhèng | constitutional government |
| 宪兵 (憲兵) | xiàn bīng | military police |
| 违宪 (違憲) | wéi xiàn | unconstitutional |
| 立宪 (立憲) | lì xiàn | to set up a constitution |
| 控制 | kòng zhì | to control |
| 制度 | zhì dù | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution |
See also: Japanese symbol for “constitutional”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.