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Chinese symbol for “calibrate”

校准
jiào zhǔn
Traditional: 校準
to calibrate

The closest CC-CEDICT match for calibrate is 校准 (jiào zhǔn), defined as: to calibrate.

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Characters and stroke order

校 jiào
school; military field officer
radical 75 ⽊ · 10 strokes
准 zhǔn
standard, accurate; to permit, to approve, to allow
radical 15 ⼎ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “calibrate”

WordPinyinMeaning
定标 (定標)dìng biāoto calibrate (measure or apparatus); fixed coefficient
校对 (校對)jiào duìproofreader; to proofread
校正jiào zhèngto proofread and correct; to edit and rectify
标定 (標定)biāo dìngto stake out (the boundaries of a property etc); to demarcate

Related words

Other words that share a character with 校准.

WordPinyinMeaning
学校 (學校)xué xiàoschool; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
校长 (校長)xiào zhǎng(college, university) president; headmaster
校园 (校園)xiào yuáncampus
高校gāo xiàouniversities and colleges; abbr. for 高等學校|高等学校
院校yuàn xiàocollege; academy
校区 (校區)xiào qūcampus
准备 (準備)zhǔn bèipreparation; to prepare
标准 (標準)biāo zhǔnstandard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard

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.