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Chinese symbol for “curious”

好奇
hào qí
inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity

The closest CC-CEDICT match for curious is 好奇 (hào qí), defined as: inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

好 hào
good, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
radical 38 ⼥ · 6 strokes
奇 qí
strange, unusual, odd; uncanny, occult
radical 37 ⼤ · 8 strokes

Other Chinese words for “curious”

WordPinyinMeaning
可怪kě guàistrange; curious

Related words

Other words that share a character with 好奇.

WordPinyinMeaning
最好zuì hǎobest; had better ...; it would be best to ...
好像hǎo xiàngas if; to seem like
不好bù hǎono good
好好hǎo hǎoin perfectly good condition; perfectly all right; well; thoroughly; carefully; properly
良好liáng hǎogood; favorable
好看hǎo kàngood-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good
奇怪qí guàistrange; odd
传奇 (傳奇)chuán qílegendary; fantasy saga

See also: Japanese symbol for “curious”.

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.

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