Chinese symbol for “census”
普查
pǔ chá
census; general survey; general investigation; reconnaissance survey
The closest CC-CEDICT match for census is 普查 (pǔ chá), defined as: census; general survey; general investigation; reconnaissance survey.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “census”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 普查.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 普通 | pǔ tōng | common; ordinary |
| 普遍 | pǔ biàn | universal; general |
| 普及 | pǔ jí | to spread extensively; to generalize |
| 普通话 (普通話) | pǔ tōng huà | Putonghua; standard Mandarin |
| 科普 | kē pǔ | popularization of science (abbr. for 科学普及 (kē xué pǔ jí)); (attributive) popular science |
| 调查 (調查) | diào chá | investigation; inquiry |
| 检查 (檢查) | jiǎn chá | inspection; to examine |
| 审查 (審查) | shěn chá | to examine; to investigate |
See also: Japanese symbol for “census”.
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.
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