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Chinese symbol for “climactic”

压轴
yā zhòu
Traditional: 壓軸
final and most important item (on a program, schedule etc); grand finale; (attributive) final; climactic; (traditional Chinese opera) penultimate item on the program; Taiwan pr. [ya1zhou2]

The closest CC-CEDICT match for climactic is 压轴 (yā zhòu), defined as: final and most important item (on a program, schedule etc); grand finale; (attributive) final; climactic; (traditional Chinese opera) penultimate item on the program; Taiwan pr. [ya1zhou2].

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Characters and stroke order

压 yā
press; oppress; crush; pressure
radical 27 ⼚ · 6 strokes
轴 zhòu
axle, pivot, shaft; axis
radical 159 ⾞ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 压轴.

WordPinyinMeaning
压力 (壓力)yā lìpressure
镇压 (鎮壓)zhèn yāsuppression; repression
压迫 (壓迫)yā pòto oppress; to repress
压缩 (壓縮)yā suōto compress; compression
压制 (壓制)yā zhìto suppress; to inhibit
高压 (高壓)gāo yā(physics) high pressure; (meteorology) high atmospheric pressure
轴承 (軸承)zhóu chéng(mechanical) bearing
主轴 (主軸)zhǔ zhóuaxis; principal axis (in mechanics, optics, botany etc)

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