Chinese symbol for “automate”

自动化

zì dòng huà

Traditional: 自動化

to automate

The closest CC-CEDICT match for automate is 自动化 (zì dòng huà), defined as: to automate.

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Characters and stroke order

自 zì

self; private, personal; from

radical 132 ⾃ · 6 strokes

动 dòng

to move, to happen; movement, action

radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes

化 huà

to change, to convert, to reform; -ize

radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

動 dòng

Related words

Other words that share a character with 自动化.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
自己	zì jǐ	oneself; (attributive) one's own
自由	zì yóu	freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted
来自 (來自)	lái zì	to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
自然	zì rán	nature; natural
自动 (自動)	zì dòng	automatic; voluntarily
自身	zì shēn	itself; oneself
活动 (活動)	huó dòng	to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
运动 (運動)	yùn dòng	to move; to exercise
文化	wén huà	culture; civilization

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.