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Chinese symbol for “documentation”

单证
dān zhèng
Traditional: 單證
(international trade) documentation (e.g. a bill of lading)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for documentation is 单证 (dān zhèng), defined as: (international trade) documentation (e.g. a bill of lading).

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Characters and stroke order

单 dān
single, individual, only; lone
radical 24 ⼗ · 8 strokes
证 zhèng
to prove, to verify; certificate, proof
radical 149 ⾔ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “documentation”

WordPinyinMeaning
文档 (文檔)wén dàng(computer) file; document; documentation

Related words

Other words that share a character with 单证.

WordPinyinMeaning
单位 (單位)dān wèiunit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole)
简单 (簡單)jiǎn dānsimple; not complicated
名单 (名單)míng dānlist of names
单独 (單獨)dān dúalone; by oneself
单纯 (單純)dān chúnsimple; pure
单一 (單一)dān yīsingle; only
证明 (證明)zhèng míngproof; certificate
保证 (保證)bǎo zhèngguarantee; to guarantee

See also: Japanese symbol for “documentation”.

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.