Chinese symbol for “slavery”
奴隶制
nú lì zhì
Traditional: 奴隸制
slavery
The closest CC-CEDICT match for slavery is 奴隶制 (nú lì zhì), defined as: slavery.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “slavery”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 奴隶制.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奴隶 (奴隸) | nú lì | slave |
| 奴役 | nú yì | to enslave |
| 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 |
| 隶属 (隸屬) | lì shǔ | to be subordinate to; to be under the jurisdiction of |
| 奴隶制度 (奴隸制度) | nú lì zhì dù | slavery |
| 奴隶社会 (奴隸社會) | nú lì shè huì | slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會|封建社会 in Marxist theory) |
| 控制 | kòng zhì | to control |
See also: Japanese symbol for “slavery”.
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.