Chinese symbol for “cushion”
坐垫
zuò diàn
Traditional: 坐墊
cushion; (motorbike) seat; 块 (kuài)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cushion is 坐垫 (zuò diàn), defined as: cushion; (motorbike) seat; 块 (kuài).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “cushion”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 垫子 (墊子) | diàn zi | cushion; mat; pad |
| 垫 (墊) | diàn | pad; cushion |
| 藉 | jiè | (literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath |
| 缓冲 (緩衝) | huǎn chōng | buffer; to cushion |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 坐垫.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 坐下 | zuò xia | to sit down |
| 坐标 (坐標) | zuò biāo | variant of 坐标 (zuò biāo) |
| 乘坐 | chéng zuò | to take (a ship, plane etc); to ride (in a train or other vehicle) |
| 坐牢 | zuò láo | to be imprisoned |
| 坐落 | zuò luò | to be situated; to be located (of a building) |
| 床垫 (床墊) | chuáng diàn | mattress; 张 (zhāng) |
| 垫底 (墊底) | diàn dǐ | to put sth on the bottom; to eat sth to tide oneself over until mealtime |
| 铺垫 (鋪墊) | pū diàn | to spread out bedding; bedcover |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cushion”.
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.