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Chinese symbol for “accession”

即位
jí wèi
to succeed to the throne; accession

The closest CC-CEDICT match for accession is 即位 (jí wèi), defined as: to succeed to the throne; accession.

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Characters and stroke order

即 jí
promptly, quickly, immediately
radical 26 ⼙ · 7 strokes
位 wèi
seat, throne; rank, status; position, location
radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 即位.

WordPinyinMeaning
即使jí shǐeven if; even though
立即lì jíimmediately
即将 (即將)jí jiāngabout to; on the point of; soon
即可jí kěequivalent to 就可以; can then (do sth)
即便jí biàneven if; even though
随即 (隨即)suí jíimmediately; presently
单位 (單位)dān wèiunit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole)
位于 (位於)wèi yúto be located at; to be situated at

See also: Japanese symbol for “accession”.

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.