封妻荫子
Traditional form:
封妻蔭子
Pinyin (reading):
fēngqīyìnzǐ
Definitions:
- to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles
Characters:
- 封 - envelope, letter; to confer, to grant; feudal
- 妻 - wife
- 荫 - shade, shelter; to protect
- 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
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