Chinese symbol for “dwarf”
矮人
ǎi rén
dwarf
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dwarf is 矮人 (ǎi rén), defined as: dwarf.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “dwarf”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 倭 | wō | dwarf; Japanese (derog.) (old) |
| 侏 | zhū | dwarf |
| 侏儒 | zhū rú | person with dwarfism; dwarf |
| 倭人 | wō rén | dwarf; (old) (derog.) Japanese person |
| 矮子 | ǎi zi | short person; dwarf |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 矮人.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 矮子 | ǎi zi | short person; dwarf |
| 矮小 | ǎi xiǎo | short and small; low and small |
| 低矮 | dī ǎi | short; low |
| 白矮星 | bái ǎi xīng | white dwarf |
| 矮化 | ǎi huà | (plant pathology) to become stunted; (horticulture) to dwarf; to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc) |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 人们 (人們) | rén men | people |
| 有人 | yǒu rén | someone; people |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dwarf”.
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.