Chinese symbol for “attend”
出席
chū xí
to attend; to participate; present
The closest CC-CEDICT match for attend is 出席 (chū xí), defined as: to attend; to participate; present.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “attend”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上 | shàng | (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts) |
| 莅 (蒞) | lì | to attend (an official function); to be present |
| 肄业 (肄業) | yì yè | to attend (a school); to drop out (of college etc) |
| 读 (讀) | dú | to read out; to read aloud; to read |
| 赴 | fù | to go; to visit (e.g. another country) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 出席.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出现 (出現) | chū xiàn | to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up |
| 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 |
| 主席 | zhǔ xí | chairperson; premier |
| 首席 | shǒu xí | seat of honor; chief (representative, correspondent etc) |
| 缺席 | quē xí | to be absent |
See also: Japanese symbol for “attend”.
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.