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Chinese symbol for “affix”

粘贴
zhān tiē
Traditional: 粘貼
to stick; to affix; to adhere; to paste (as in "copy and paste")

The closest CC-CEDICT match for affix is 粘贴 (zhān tiē), defined as: to stick; to affix; to adhere; to paste (as in "copy and paste"); Taiwan pr. [nian2 tie1]; also written 黏贴 (nián tiē).

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Characters and stroke order

粘 zhān
viscous, sticky, mucous, glutinous
radical 119 ⽶ · 11 strokes
贴 tiē
to stick, to paste; attached; allowance, subsidy
radical 154 ⾙ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “affix”

WordPinyinMeaning
词缀 (詞綴)cí zhuìprefix or suffix of a compound word; affix (linguistics)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 粘贴.

WordPinyinMeaning
粘性nián xìngvariant of 黏性 (nián xìng)
粘液nián yèvariant of 黏液 (nián yè)
粘连 (粘連)nián liánto adhere; to stick together
粘稠nián chóuviscous; thick and sticky
补贴 (補貼)bǔ tiēto subsidize; subsidy
津贴 (津貼)jīn tiēallowance
贴近 (貼近)tiē jìnto press close to; to snuggle close
张贴 (張貼)zhāng tiēto post (a notice); to advertise

See also: Japanese symbol for “affix”.

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.