Chinese symbol for “correspondence”
中转
zhōng zhuǎn
Traditional: 中轉
to change (train or plane); transfer; correspondence
The closest CC-CEDICT match for correspondence is 中转 (zhōng zhuǎn), defined as: to change (train or plane); transfer; correspondence.
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Characters and stroke order
中 zhōng
central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Ch
radical 2 ⼁ · 4 strokes
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “correspondence”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 函件 | hán jiàn | letters; correspondence |
| 书函 (書函) | shū hán | letter; correspondence |
| 简牍 (簡牘) | jiǎn dú | bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times); letter; correspondence; book; document |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 中转.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其中 | qí zhōng | among; in |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 中央 | zhōng yāng | central; middle |
| 中学 (中學) | zhōng xué | middle school |
| 之中 | zhī zhōng | inside; among |
| 集中 | jí zhōng | to concentrate; to centralize |
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform |
See also: Japanese symbol for “correspondence”.
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.