Chinese symbol for “fabricate”
杜撰
dù zhuàn
to fabricate; to make sth up; invented
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fabricate is 杜撰 (dù zhuàn), defined as: to fabricate; to make sth up; invented.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “fabricate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瞎编 (瞎編) | xiā biān | to fabricate (a story) |
| 编 (編) | biān | to weave; to plait |
| 造 | zào | to make; to build |
| 捏 | niē | to hold between the thumb and fingers; to pinch |
| 编造 (編造) | biān zào | to compile; to draw up |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 杜撰.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杜绝 (杜絕) | dù jué | to put an end to |
| 杜鹃 (杜鵑) | dù juān | cuckoo (Cercococcyx spp., also written 杜鵑鳥|杜鹃鸟); Indian azalea (Rhododendron simsii Planch, also written 杜鵑花|杜鹃花) |
| 杜鹃花 (杜鵑花) | dù juān huā | Indian Azalea (Rhododendron simsii Planch) |
| 杜仲 | dù zhòng | eucommia (a kind of rubber tree) |
| 杜塞 | dù sè | to stop; to block |
| 撰写 (撰寫) | zhuàn xiě | to write; to compose |
| 撰文 | zhuàn wén | to write an article |
| 编撰 (編撰) | biān zhuàn | to compile; to edit |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fabricate”.
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.