Chinese symbol for “habit”
习惯
xí guàn
Traditional: 習慣
habit; custom; usual practice; to be used to
The closest CC-CEDICT match for habit is 习惯 (xí guàn), defined as: habit; custom; usual practice; to be used to; 个 (gè).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “habit”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 癖 | pǐ | habit; hobby |
| 嗜好 | shì hào | hobby; indulgence; habit; addiction |
| 习 (習) | xí | (bound form) to practice; to study |
| 忕 | shì | accustomed to; habit |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 习惯.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学习 (學習) | xué xí | to learn; to study |
| 练习 (練習) | liàn xí | to practice; exercise |
| 实习 (實習) | shí xí | to practice; field work |
| 习俗 (習俗) | xí sú | custom; tradition |
| 演习 (演習) | yǎn xí | (military, firefighting etc) (verb and noun) drill; exercise; maneuver |
| 惯例 (慣例) | guàn lì | convention; usual practice |
| 惯性 (慣性) | guàn xìng | (physics) inertia; (fig.) force of habit |
| 惯用 (慣用) | guàn yòng | to use habitually; habitual |
See also: Japanese symbol for “habit”.
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.