Chinese symbol for “conscience”
良心
liáng xīn
conscience
The closest CC-CEDICT match for conscience is 良心 (liáng xīn), defined as: conscience.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “conscience”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天良 | tiān liáng | conscience |
| 良知 | liáng zhī | innate sense of right and wrong; conscience |
| 心眼 | xīn yǎn | heart; intention |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 良心.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 良好 | liáng hǎo | good; favorable |
| 不良 | bù liáng | bad; harmful; unhealthy; (of a device, connection, material etc) defective; faulty |
| 优良 (優良) | yōu liáng | fine; good |
| 善良 | shàn liáng | good and honest; kindhearted |
| 改良 | gǎi liáng | to improve (sth); to refine; to reform (a system) |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 担心 (擔心) | dān xīn | anxious; worried |
| 关心 (關心) | guān xīn | to be concerned about; to care about |
See also: Japanese symbol for “conscience”.
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.