Chinese symbol for “deviate”
偏离
piān lí
Traditional: 偏離
to deviate; to diverge; to wander
The closest CC-CEDICT match for deviate is 偏离 (piān lí), defined as: to deviate; to diverge; to wander.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “deviate”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 偏离.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 偏见 (偏見) | piān jiàn | prejudice; bias |
| 偏偏 | piān piān | (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite |
| 偏向 | piān xiàng | partial towards sth; to prefer |
| 偏好 | piān hào | to have a special liking (for sth) |
| 偏差 | piān chā | deviation; bias |
| 离开 (離開) | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
| 距离 (距離) | jù lí | distance; separation (in space or time); to be ... away from; to be ... from |
| 脱离 (脫離) | tuō lí | to separate oneself from; to break away from |
See also: Japanese symbol for “deviate”.
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.