Chinese symbol for “dissident”
异议人士
yì yì rén shì
Traditional: 異議人士
dissident
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dissident is 异议人士 (yì yì rén shì), defined as: dissident.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “dissident”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 异见 (異見) | yì jiàn | dissident; dissenting |
| 异己 (異己) | yì jǐ | dissident; alien |
| 反贼 (反賊) | fǎn zéi | (imperial China) rebel; traitor; (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary |
| 异见者 (異見者) | yì jiàn zhě | dissident |
| 异议分子 (異議分子) | yì yì fèn zǐ | dissident |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 异议人士.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 差异 (差異) | chā yì | difference; discrepancy |
| 异常 (異常) | yì cháng | unusual; abnormal; extremely; exceptionally |
| 异议 (異議) | yì yì | objection; dissent |
| 怪异 (怪異) | guài yì | monstrous; strange |
| 诡异 (詭異) | guǐ yì | strange; weird |
| 优异 (優異) | yōu yì | exceptional; outstandingly good |
| 会议 (會議) | huì yì | meeting; conference |
| 建议 (建議) | jiàn yì | to propose; to suggest; to recommend; proposal; suggestion; recommendation (点 (diǎn)) |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 人士 | rén shì | person; figure |
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.