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Chinese symbol for “assiduously”

矻矻
kū kū
assiduously

The closest CC-CEDICT match for assiduously is 矻矻 (kū kū), defined as: assiduously.

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Characters and stroke order

矻 kū
busy; to toil, to slave away
radical 112 ⽯ · 8 strokes
矻
矻 kū
busy; to toil, to slave away
radical 112 ⽯ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 矻矻.

WordPinyinMeaning
孜孜矻矻zī zī kū kūdiligently

See also: Japanese symbol for “assiduously”.

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.