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Chinese symbol for “drastic”

过激
guò jī
Traditional: 過激
drastic; extreme; aggressive

The closest CC-CEDICT match for drastic is 过激 (guò jī), defined as: drastic; extreme; aggressive.

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Characters and stroke order

过 guò
pass; to go across, to pass through
radical 162 ⾡ · 7 strokes
激 jī
to arouse, to incite; acute, sharp; fierce, violent
radical 85 ⽔ · 16 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “drastic”

WordPinyinMeaning
激烈jī liè(of competition or fighting) intense; fierce

Related words

Other words that share a character with 过激.

WordPinyinMeaning
通过 (通過)tōng guòto pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation)
不过 (不過)bù guòonly; merely
过去 (過去)guò qù(in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by
过程 (過程)guò chéngcourse of events; process
超过 (超過)chāo guòto surpass; to exceed
刺激cì jīto provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant
激烈jī liè(of competition or fighting) intense; fierce
激动 (激動)jī dòngto move emotionally; to stir up (emotions)

See also: Japanese symbol for “drastic”.

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.