Chinese symbol for “extinct”
绝种
jué zhǒng
Traditional: 絕種
extinct (species); extinction
The closest CC-CEDICT match for extinct is 绝种 (jué zhǒng), defined as: extinct (species); extinction.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “extinct”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绝 (絕) | jué | to cut short; extinct |
| 绝迹 (絕跡) | jué jì | to be eradicated; to vanish |
| 失传 (失傳) | shī chuán | (of skills etc) to die out; lost |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 绝种.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绝对 (絕對) | jué duì | absolute; unconditional |
| 拒绝 (拒絕) | jù jué | to refuse; to decline; to reject |
| 绝不 (絕不) | jué bù | in no way; not in the least; absolutely not |
| 绝望 (絕望) | jué wàng | to despair; to give up all hope |
| 绝大多数 (絕大多數) | jué dà duō shù | the vast majority |
| 灭绝 (滅絕) | miè jué | to become extinct; to die out; to lose (sth abstract) completely |
| 这种 (這種) | zhè zhǒng | this kind of |
| 一种 (一種) | yī zhǒng | one kind of; one type of |
See also: Japanese symbol for “extinct”.
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.