Chinese symbol for “accept”
接受
jiē shòu
to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce
The closest CC-CEDICT match for accept is 接受 (jiē shòu), defined as: to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “accept”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 接下来 (接下來) | jiē xià lái | to accept; to take |
| 采纳 (採納) | cǎi nà | to accept; to adopt |
| 收下 | shōu xià | to accept; to receive |
| 领受 (領受) | lǐng shòu | to accept; to receive |
| 承兑 (承兌) | chéng duì | (commerce) to accept (i.e. acknowledge as calling for payment); to honor (a check, a promise) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 接受.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 直接 | zhí jiē | directly; direct |
| 链接 (鏈接) | liàn jiē | to link; to catenate; link (on a web page); hyperlink |
| 接触 (接觸) | jiē chù | to touch; to contact |
| 接近 | jiē jìn | to approach; to get close to |
| 连接 (連接) | lián jiē | to link; to join; to connect |
| 受到 | shòu dào | to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc) |
| 感受 | gǎn shòu | to sense; perception |
| 享受 | xiǎng shòu | to enjoy; to live it up |
See also: Japanese symbol for “accept”.
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.