Chinese symbol for “automated”

自控

zì kòng

automated; automatically regulated; to control oneself; self-control

The closest CC-CEDICT match for automated is 自控 (zì kòng), defined as: automated; automatically regulated; to control oneself; self-control.

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Characters and stroke order

自 zì

self; private, personal; from

radical 132 ⾃ · 6 strokes

控 kòng

to accuse, to charge; to control; to sue

radical 64 ⼿ · 11 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 自控.

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
控制	kòng zhì	to control
监控 (監控)	jiān kòng	to monitor

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.