奴隶社会

Traditional form:

奴隸社會

Pinyin (reading):

núlìshèhuì

Definitions:

• slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會／封建社会 in Marxist theory)

Characters:

• 奴 - slave, servant
• 隶 - subservient; servant
• 社 - group, organization, society; a god of the soil
• 会 - to assemble, to meet; meeting; association, group

Traditional characters:

• 奴 - slave, servant
• 隸 - subservient; servant
• 社 - group, organization, society; a god of the soil
• 會 - to assemble, to meet; meeting; association, group