Chinese symbol for “challenge”
挑战
tiǎo zhàn
Traditional: 挑戰
to challenge; to take on a challenge; a challenge
The closest CC-CEDICT match for challenge is 挑战 (tiǎo zhàn), defined as: to challenge; to take on a challenge; a challenge.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “challenge”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 质疑 (質疑) | zhì yí | to call into question; to challenge (the truth or validity of) |
| 将军 (將軍) | jiāng jūn | general; high-ranking military officer |
| 叫板 | jiào bǎn | to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song); (coll.) to challenge |
| 搦 | nuò | (literary) to hold (in the hand); to challenge |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 挑战.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挑选 (挑選) | tiāo xuǎn | to choose; to select |
| 挑衅 (挑釁) | tiǎo xìn | to provoke; provocation |
| 挑起 | tiǎo qǐ | to provoke; to stir up |
| 挑逗 | tiǎo dòu | to provoke; to entice |
| 挑战者 (挑戰者) | tiǎo zhàn zhě | challenger |
| 战争 (戰爭) | zhàn zhēng | war; conflict; 场 (cháng),次 (cì) |
| 战略 (戰略) | zhàn lüè | strategy |
| 战斗 (戰鬥) | zhàn dòu | to fight; to engage in combat |
See also: Japanese symbol for “challenge”.
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.