Chinese symbol for “abridged”
删简压缩
shān jiǎn yā suō
Traditional: 刪簡壓縮
to simplify and condense (a text); abridged
The closest CC-CEDICT match for abridged is 删简压缩 (shān jiǎn yā suō), defined as: to simplify and condense (a text); abridged.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 删简压缩.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 删除 (刪除) | shān chú | to delete; to cancel |
| 删减 (刪減) | shān jiǎn | to abridge (a text); to edit out (of a movie) |
| 删掉 (刪掉) | shān diào | to delete |
| 删去 (刪去) | shān qù | to delete |
| 删节 (刪節) | shān jié | to abridge; to cut a text down to size for publication |
| 删改 (刪改) | shān gǎi | to edit; to modify |
| 简单 (簡單) | jiǎn dān | simple; not complicated |
| 简直 (簡直) | jiǎn zhí | simply; really |
| 压力 (壓力) | yā lì | pressure |
| 缩短 (縮短) | suō duǎn | to shorten; to reduce; to curtail |
See also: Japanese symbol for “abridged”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.