Chinese symbol for “assortment”
杂七杂八
zá qī zá bā
Traditional: 雜七雜八
an assortment; a bit of everything; lots of different (skills)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for assortment is 杂七杂八 (zá qī zá bā), defined as: an assortment; a bit of everything; lots of different (skills).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “assortment”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 杂七杂八.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 复杂 (複雜) | fù zá | complicated; complex |
| 杂志 (雜誌) | zá zhì | magazine; measure word: 本 (běn), 份 (fèn), 期 (qī) |
| 杂交 (雜交) | zá jiāo | to hybridize; to crossbreed |
| 杂种 (雜種) | zá zhǒng | hybrid; mixed breed |
| 混杂 (混雜) | hùn zá | to mix; to mingle |
| 杂草 (雜草) | zá cǎo | weeds |
| 十七 | shí qī | seventeen; 17 |
| 七十 | qī shí | seventy; 70 |
| 十八 | shí bā | eighteen; 18 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “assortment”.
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.