( $1-x$ )Pb(Fe 0.5 Nb 0.5 )O 3 - x Pb(Zr 0.2 Ti 0.8 )O 3 (PFN-PZT, x = 0.75 , 0.80, 0.85) ferroelectric ceramics were prepared by conventional solid-state reaction method via the wolframite precursor route. XRD measurements confirmed that the synthesized PFN-PZT ceramics are of pure tetragonal perovskite structure. With the increase of Pb(Zr 0.2 Ti 0.8 )O 3 (PZT) content, tetragonality (defined as the ratio of cell parameter c/a ) increases slightly accompanied by the variation of cell volume. At the optimized sintering condition of 1175 °C for 2 h, the 0.20PFN-0.80PZT ceramics exhibit the largest value of relative density (93.77%). The PFN-PZT ceramics exhibit first-order ferroelectric phase transition of typical normal ferroelectrics, where the dielectric response peaks are narrow, sharp and without frequency dispersion, and the dielectric constant above Curie temperature ( T C ) can be fitted well by Curie law. The sintered PFN-PZT ceramics exhibit high- T C , and with the increase of PZT content, T C increases and reaches 368, 394 and 401 °C, respectively. With the increase of PZT content, the P-E ferroelectric hysteresis loops of the PFN-PZT ceramics become narrower accompanied by the decrease of remanent polarization ( P r ) and coercive field ( E C ). Piezoelectric constant d 33 of all the PFN-PZT ceramics is small, less than 10 pC/N.