封建

Chinese

		to confer; to grant; to seal to confer; to grant; to seal; (a measure word)	to establish; to found; to set up to establish; to found; to set up; to build; to construct
simp. and trad. (封建)		封	建

In the modern sense of "feudalism", wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 封 (ほう)建 (けん) (hōken).

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fēngjiàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄥㄐㄧㄢˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fengjiann
  - IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fung¹ gin³
  - Yale: fūng gin
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹ gin³
  - Guangdong Romanization: fung¹ gin³
  - IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵ kiːn³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong-kiàn
  - Tâi-lô: hong-kiàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hongkiexn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiɛn²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³ kiɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiɛn²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɛn¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɛn²¹/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: fon ji (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi²¹/

封建

(historical) fengjian (a system of enfeoffment in ancient China); (by extension) feudalism; European feudalism
封建政體 / 封建政体 ― fēngjiàn zhèngtǐ ― feudal polity

封建

feudal; feudalistic
封建迷信 ― fēngjiàn míxìn ― feudalistic and superstitious (things)
(informal) stuffy; conservative; old-fashioned

Kanji in this term
封	建
ほう Grade: S	けん Grade: 4

封建 (hiragana ほうけん, rōmaji hōken)

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