Chinese symbol for “deadline”
截止日
jié zhǐ rì
deadline; cut-off date
The closest CC-CEDICT match for deadline is 截止日 (jié zhǐ rì), defined as: deadline; cut-off date.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “deadline”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 死线 (死線) | sǐ xiàn | deadline (loanword) |
| 期限 | qī xiàn | time limit; deadline |
| 限期 | xiàn qī | to set a time limit; time limit |
| 截止期限 | jié zhǐ qī xiàn | deadline |
| 最后期限 (最後期限) | zuì hòu qī xiàn | deadline; final time limit (for project) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 截止日.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 截至 | jié zhì | up to (a time); by (a time) |
| 截图 (截圖) | jié tú | (computing) screenshot; to take a screenshot |
| 截止 | jié zhǐ | to end; to close; (electricity) cut-off |
| 拦截 (攔截) | lán jié | to intercept |
| 截然不同 | jié rán bù tóng | entirely different; different as black and white |
| 截肢 | jié zhī | amputation (medicine); to amputate |
| 停止 | tíng zhǐ | to stop; to halt; to cease |
| 禁止 | jìn zhǐ | to prohibit; to forbid |
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
See also: Japanese symbol for “deadline”.
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.