Chinese symbol for “fad”
时尚
shí shàng
Traditional: 時尚
fashion; fad; fashionable
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fad is 时尚 (shí shàng), defined as: fashion; fad; fashionable.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “fad”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 时尚.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
| 时候 (時候) | shí hou | time; length of time |
| 同时 (同時) | tóng shí | at the same time; simultaneously |
| 当时 (當時) | dāng shí | then; at that time |
| 时期 (時期) | shí qī | period; phase |
| 尚未 | shàng wèi | not yet; still not |
| 和尚 | hé shang | Buddhist monk |
| 尚书 (尚書) | shàng shū | high official; government minister |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fad”.
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.