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
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 压轴.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 压力 (壓力) | yā lì | pressure |
| 镇压 (鎮壓) | zhèn yā | suppression; repression |
| 压迫 (壓迫) | yā pò | to oppress; to repress |
| 压缩 (壓縮) | yā suō | to compress; compression |
| 压制 (壓制) | yā zhì | to 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 zhóu | axis; principal axis (in mechanics, optics, botany etc) |
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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