Chinese symbol for “displacement”
位移
wèi yí
(geometry) displacement (a vector quantity)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for displacement is 位移 (wèi yí), defined as: (geometry) displacement (a vector quantity).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “displacement”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 排水量 | pái shuǐ liàng | displacement |
| 偏移 | piān yí | displacement; deviation |
| 置换 (置換) | zhì huàn | to permute; permutation (math.) |
| 移位 | yí wèi | to shift; shift |
| 转位 (轉位) | zhuǎn wèi | transposition; displacement |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 位移.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 单位 (單位) | dān wèi | unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole) |
| 位于 (位於) | wèi yú | to be located at; to be situated at |
| 地位 | dì wèi | position; status |
| 位置 | wèi zhi | position; place |
| 这位 (這位) | zhè wèi | this (person) |
| 各位 | gè wèi | everybody; all (guests, colleagues etc) |
| 移民 | yí mín | to immigrate; to migrate |
| 移动 (移動) | yí dòng | to move; movement |
See also: Japanese symbol for “displacement”.
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.