Chinese symbol for “alternately”
迭
dié
alternately; repeatedly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for alternately is 迭 (dié), defined as: alternately; repeatedly.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “alternately”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交互 | jiāo hù | mutual; interactive |
| 交替 | jiāo tì | to replace; alternately; in turn |
| 更番 | gēng fān | alternately; by turns |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 迭.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 更迭 | gēng dié | to alternate; to change |
| 迭代 | dié dài | to iterate; (literary) to alternate |
| 迭起 | dié qǐ | continuously arising; to arise repeatedly |
| 迷迭香 | mí dié xiāng | rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) |
| 高潮迭起 | gāo cháo dié qǐ | each new high point replaced by another; (of a movie etc) one climax after another |
| 重迭 | chóng dié | variant of 重叠 (chóng dié) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “alternately”.
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.