Chinese symbol for “appear”
出现
chū xiàn
Traditional: 出現
to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
The closest CC-CEDICT match for appear is 出现 (chū xiàn), defined as: to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “appear”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 见 (見) | xiàn | to appear; also written 现 (xiàn) |
| 现 (現) | xiàn | to appear; present |
| 呈现 (呈現) | chéng xiàn | to appear; to emerge |
| 形 | xíng | to appear; to look |
| 显灵 (顯靈) | xiǎn líng | (of a supernatural or divine being) to appear; to make itself manifest |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 出现.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出来 (出來) | chū lái | to come out; to appear |
| 提出 | tí chū | to raise (an issue); to propose |
| 指出 | zhǐ chū | to indicate; to point out |
| 出版 | chū bǎn | to publish |
| 现在 (現在) | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 发现 (發現) | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect |
| 实现 (實現) | shí xiàn | to achieve; to implement; to realize; to bring about |
| 表现 (表現) | biǎo xiàn | to show; to show off |
See also: Japanese symbol for “appear”.
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.