Chinese symbol for “casualty”
受害者
shòu hài zhě
casualty; victim; those injured and wounded
The closest CC-CEDICT match for casualty is 受害者 (shòu hài zhě), defined as: casualty; victim; those injured and wounded.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “casualty”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伤者 (傷者) | shāng zhě | casualty; victim (of an accident) |
| 死伤者 (死傷者) | sǐ shāng zhě | casualty (of an accident); dead and wounded |
| 死难者 (死難者) | sǐ nàn zhě | victim of an accident; casualty |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 受害者.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 接受 | jiē shòu | to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce |
| 受到 | shòu dào | to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc) |
| 感受 | gǎn shòu | to sense; perception |
| 享受 | xiǎng shòu | to enjoy; to live it up |
| 受伤 (受傷) | shòu shāng | to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc) |
| 伤害 (傷害) | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 害怕 | hài pà | to be afraid; to be scared |
| 厉害 (厲害) | lì hai | (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; a |
| 记者 (記者) | jì zhě | reporter; journalist; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “casualty”.
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.