Chinese symbol for “colonel”
陆军上校
lù jūn shàng xiào
Traditional: 陸軍上校
colonel
The closest CC-CEDICT match for colonel is 陆军上校 (lù jūn shàng xiào), defined as: colonel.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “colonel”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 陆军上校.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 陆续 (陸續) | lù xù | in turn; successively |
| 登陆 (登陸) | dēng lù | to land; to come ashore |
| 陆军 (陸軍) | lù jūn | army; ground forces |
| 陆地 (陸地) | lù dì | dry land (as opposed to the sea) |
| 内陆 (內陸) | nèi lù | inland; interior |
| 军队 (軍隊) | jūn duì | armed forces; troops; measure word: 支 (zhī) |
| 军事 (軍事) | jūn shì | military affairs; (attributive) military |
| 以上 | yǐ shàng | that level or higher; that amount or more; the above-mentioned |
| 学校 (學校) | xué xiào | school; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “colonel”.
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.