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Chinese symbol for “deflate”

平减
píng jiǎn
Traditional: 平減
to deflate; to decrease (number, esp. price)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for deflate is 平减 (píng jiǎn), defined as: to deflate; to decrease (number, esp. price).

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Characters and stroke order

平 píng
flat, level, even; peaceful
radical 51 ⼲ · 5 strokes
减 jiǎn
to decrease, to subtract, to diminish
radical 15 ⼎ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “deflate”

WordPinyinMeaning
放气 (放氣)fàng qìto release breath; to deflate

Related words

Other words that share a character with 平减.

WordPinyinMeaning
平台 (平臺)píng táiplatform; terrace
和平hé píngpeace; peaceful
水平shuǐ pínghorizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)
平均píng jūnaverage; on average; evenly; in equal proportions
公平gōng píngfair; impartial
平等píng děngequal; equality
减少 (減少)jiǎn shǎoto lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower
减轻 (減輕)jiǎn qīngto lighten; to ease

See also: Japanese symbol for “deflate”.

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.