Chinese symbol for “enslave”
奴役
nú yì
to enslave
The closest CC-CEDICT match for enslave is 奴役 (nú yì), defined as: to enslave.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “enslave”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 奴役.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奴隶 (奴隸) | nú lì | slave |
| 奴隶制 (奴隸制) | nú lì zhì | slavery |
| 奴才 | nú cai | slave; fig. flunkey |
| 农奴 (農奴) | nóng nú | serf |
| 奴隶主 (奴隸主) | nú lì zhǔ | slave owner |
| 战役 (戰役) | zhàn yì | military campaign |
| 服役 | fú yì | to serve in the army; in active service |
| 退役 | tuì yì | (of military personnel or athletes) to retire; (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned |
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.