Chinese symbol for “giraffe”
长颈鹿
cháng jǐng lù
Traditional: 長頸鹿
giraffe; 只 (zhī)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for giraffe is 长颈鹿 (cháng jǐng lù), defined as: giraffe; 只 (zhī).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “giraffe”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 长颈鹿.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 增长 (增長) | zēng zhǎng | to grow; to increase |
| 长期 (長期) | cháng qī | long-term; for a protracted period |
| 部长 (部長) | bù zhǎng | head of a (government etc) department; section chief |
| 成长 (成長) | chéng zhǎng | to mature; to grow |
| 市长 (市長) | shì zhǎng | mayor |
| 家长 (家長) | jiā zhǎng | head of a household; family head |
| 瓶颈 (瓶頸) | píng jǐng | neck of a bottle; (fig.) bottleneck |
| 颈部 (頸部) | jǐng bù | neck |
| 鹿角 | lù jiǎo | antler; deer horn |
See also: Japanese symbol for “giraffe”.
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.