Chinese symbol for “concede”
让步
ràng bù
Traditional: 讓步
to concede; to give in; to yield; a concession
The closest CC-CEDICT match for concede is 让步 (ràng bù), defined as: to concede; to give in; to yield; a concession; (linguistics) concessive.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “concede”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 认输 (認輸) | rèn shū | to concede; to admit defeat |
| 承认 (承認) | chéng rèn | to admit; to concede |
| 服输 (服輸) | fú shū | to concede; to admit defeat |
| 退让 (退讓) | tuì ràng | to move aside; to get out of the way |
| 牵就 (牽就) | qiān jiù | to concede; to give up |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 让步.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 转让 (轉讓) | zhuǎn ràng | to transfer (ownership, rights etc) |
| 出让 (出讓) | chū ràng | to transfer (one's property or rights to sb else) |
| 退让 (退讓) | tuì ràng | to move aside; to get out of the way |
| 割让 (割讓) | gē ràng | to cede; cession |
| 让路 (讓路) | ràng lù | to make way (for sth) |
| 进一步 (進一步) | jìn yī bù | to go a step further; (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further |
| 进步 (進步) | jìn bù | progress; improvement; to improve; to progress |
| 逐步 | zhú bù | progressively; step by step |
See also: Japanese symbol for “concede”.
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.