Chinese symbol for “bid”
投标
tóu biāo
Traditional: 投標
to bid; to make a tender
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bid is 投标 (tóu biāo), defined as: to bid; to make a tender.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “bid”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出价 (出價) | chū jià | to bid |
| 竞拍 (競拍) | jìng pāi | to bid (at an auction); auction |
| 叫牌 | jiào pái | to bid (bridge and similar card games) |
| 标 (標) | biāo | mark; sign |
| 竞价 (競價) | jìng jià | price competition; bid (in an auction) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 投标.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 投资 (投資) | tóu zī | investment; to invest |
| 投入 | tóu rù | to throw into; to put into |
| 投票 | tóu piào | to vote; to cast a vote |
| 投诉 (投訴) | tóu sù | to lodge a complaint |
| 投资者 (投資者) | tóu zī zhě | investor |
| 投降 | tóu xiáng | to surrender |
| 目标 (目標) | mù biāo | target; goal |
| 标准 (標準) | biāo zhǔn | standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bid”.
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.