Chinese symbol for “acquired”
获得性
huò dé xìng
Traditional: 獲得性
acquired (i.e. not inborn)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for acquired is 获得性 (huò dé xìng), defined as: acquired (i.e. not inborn).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “acquired”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 后天性 (後天性) | hòu tiān xìng | acquired (characteristic etc) |
| 后天 (後天) | hòu tiān | the day after tomorrow; life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天 (xiān tiān)) |
| 习得性 (習得性) | xí dé xìng | acquired; learned |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 获得性.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 获得 (獲得) | huò dé | to obtain; to receive; to get |
| 获取 (獲取) | huò qǔ | to gain; to get; to acquire |
| 获奖 (獲獎) | huò jiǎng | to win an award |
| 收获 (收獲) | shōu huò | variant of 收获 (shōu huò) |
| 荣获 (榮獲) | róng huò | be honored with |
| 觉得 (覺得) | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc) |
| 得到 | dé dào | to get; to obtain; to receive |
| 取得 | qǔ dé | to acquire; to get; to obtain |
| 女性 | nǚ xìng | woman; the female sex |
See also: Japanese symbol for “acquired”.
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.