Chinese symbol for “connotations”
字里行间
zì lǐ háng jiān
Traditional: 字裡行間
between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning; connotations
The closest CC-CEDICT match for connotations is 字里行间 (zì lǐ háng jiān), defined as: between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning; connotations.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 字里行间.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 名字 | míng zi | name (of a person or thing) |
| 数字 (數字) | shù zì | numeral; digit |
| 文字 | wén zì | character; script |
| 字母 | zì mǔ | letter (of the alphabet); 个 (gè) |
| 字幕 | zì mù | subtitles; captions (of a movie etc) |
| 汉字 (漢字) | hàn zì | Chinese character(s) |
| 这里 (這裏) | zhè lǐ | variant of 这里 (zhè lǐ) |
| 哪里 (哪裏) | nǎ lǐ | where?; somewhere |
| 进行 (進行) | jìn xíng | (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) |
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
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.