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Chinese symbol for “compressed”

密集
mì jí
concentrated; crowded together; intensive; compressed

The closest CC-CEDICT match for compressed is 密集 (mì jí), defined as: concentrated; crowded together; intensive; compressed.

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Characters and stroke order

密 mì
secret, confidential; intimate, close; dense, thick
radical 40 ⼧ · 11 strokes
集 jí
to gather, to collect; set, collection
radical 172 ⾫ · 12 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 密集.

WordPinyinMeaning
秘密mì mìsecret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret
密码 (密碼)mì mǎcipher; secret code; password; PIN
密切mì qièclose; intimate; to strengthen (ties, cooperation etc)
紧密 (緊密)jǐn mìinseparably close
密度mì dùdensity; concentration
机密 (機密)jī mìsecret; classified; classified information; secret
集团 (集團)jí tuángroup; bloc
集中jí zhōngto concentrate; to centralize

See also: Japanese symbol for “compressed”.

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.