体制tǐzhì 1.国家机关、企业、事业单位等的组织制度{establishment; institution; system (of organization); structure; organizational system of a government organ, enterprise, institution, etc.}: 学校～{school system}|领导～。{leadership structure} 2.文体的格局;体裁{form; pattern}: 五言诗的～,在汉末就形成了。{The pattern of the five-character poems came into being towards the end of the Han Dynasty.}