Chinese symbol for “hierarchy”
等级制度
děng jí zhì dù
Traditional: 等級制度
hierarchy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hierarchy is 等级制度 (děng jí zhì dù), defined as: hierarchy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “hierarchy”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 等级制度.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 等等 | děng děng | et cetera; and so on ... |
| 平等 | píng děng | equal; equality |
| 等待 | děng dài | to wait; to wait for |
| 等级 (等級) | děng jí | grade; rank |
| 等于 (等於) | děng yú | to equal; to be tantamount to |
| 高等 | gāo děng | high-level; higher (animals, education etc) |
| 高级 (高級) | gāo jí | high level; high grade |
| 超级 (超級) | chāo jí | super-; ultra- |
| 控制 | kòng zhì | to control |
| 制度 | zhì dù | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hierarchy”.
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.