东正教

東正教
Dōngzhèngjiào
proper noun #46,946

Meanings

  1. 1 Eastern Orthodoxy, the Orthodox Church

Examples

HSK 7-9
Éluósīrén dàduō xìn Dōngzhèngjiào.
Most Russians are Orthodox Christians.
HSK 7-9
Yī líng wǔ sì nián, Dōngzhèngjiào hé Tiānzhǔjiào zhèngshì fēnliè.
In 1054 the Orthodox and Catholic churches formally split.

Tips

usage
Chinese divides Christianity into three main branches: 天主教 (Catholicism), 东正教 (Orthodoxy) and 新教 (Protestantism). In everyday speech 基督教 usually means Protestantism alone.
memory
正教 "right teaching" renders "Orthodox", which means "right belief", and 东 "eastern" marks it as the church of the Greek-speaking East.

Stroke Order

东 dōng
正 zhèng
教 jiāo