士族
shì​zú

gentry

  • created sense approved 士族 · shì​zú · gentry — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    士族

    shì​zú

    gentry

    The powerful land-owning class and official families that held special political and economic privileges between the Han and Tang dynasties.

    士 (literal) → 士 · shì · official 族 (literal) → 族 · zú · clan

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense