封妻蔭子 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 封妻荫子 fēngqīyìnzǐ ㄈㄥ ㄑㄧ ㄧㄣˋ ㄗˇ to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles idiom Character by character 封(fēng)surname Feng 妻(qī)wife 蔭(yìn)shade 子(zǐ)son A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0