合法性

héfǎxìng
noun #27,224

Meanings

  1. 1 legitimacy
  2. 2 legality

Examples

Zhè xiàng zhèngcè de héfǎxìng shòudào guǎngfàn zhìyí.
The legitimacy of this policy has been widely questioned.
Fǎyuàn jiāng shěnchá gāi hétong de héfǎxìng.
The court will examine the legality of the contract.

Tips

usage
合法性 can refer to both legality (compliance with law, 法律合法性) and legitimacy (moral or political justification, 政治合法性). Context determines which sense is meant.
memory
合法 (héfǎ) means 'legal/lawful' and (xìng) is a nominalizing suffix meaning '-ness'. 合法性 = 'lawfulness/legitimacy'.

Stroke Order

xìng