Chinese symbol for “certain”
某些
mǒu xiē
some; certain (things)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for certain is 某些 (mǒu xiē), defined as: some; certain (things).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “certain”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 笃定 (篤定) | dǔ dìng | certain; confident (of some outcome) |
| 一定 | yī dìng | surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled |
| 确定 (確定) | què dìng | definite; certain |
| 某 | mǒu | some; a certain |
| 必然 | bì rán | inevitable; certain |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 某些.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 某种 (某種) | mǒu zhǒng | some kind (of) |
| 某人 | mǒu rén | someone; a certain person |
| 某某 | mǒu mǒu | so-and-so; such-and-such |
| 某处 (某處) | mǒu chù | somewhere |
| 某地 | mǒu dì | somewhere; some place |
| 这些 (這些) | zhè xiē | these |
| 一些 | yī xiē | some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er |
| 那些 | nà xiē | those |
See also: Japanese symbol for “certain”.
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.