Chinese symbol for “centrist”

中立派

zhōng lì pài

centrist; the centrist faction

The closest CC-CEDICT match for centrist is 中立派 (zhōng lì pài), defined as: centrist; the centrist faction.

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Characters and stroke order

中 zhōng

central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Ch

radical 2 ⼁ · 4 strokes

立 lì

to stand; to establish, to set up

radical 117 ⽴ · 5 strokes

派 pài

clique, faction, group, sect

radical 85 ⽔ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 中立派.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
其中	qí zhōng	among; in
中心	zhōng xīn	center; heart; core
中央	zhōng yāng	central; middle
中学 (中學)	zhōng xué	middle school
之中	zhī zhōng	inside; among
集中	jí zhōng	to concentrate; to centralize
建立	jiàn lì	to establish; to set up
成立	chéng lì	to establish; to set up
派出	pài chū	to send; to dispatch

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.