Chinese symbol for “historic”
历史性
lì shǐ xìng
Traditional: 歷史性
historic
The closest CC-CEDICT match for historic is 历史性 (lì shǐ xìng), defined as: historic.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 历史性.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 历史 (歷史) | lì shǐ | history; 门 (mén),段 (duàn) |
| 经历 (經歷) | jīng lì | to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段 (duàn),次 (cì)) |
| 学历 (學歷) | xué lì | educational background; academic qualifications |
| 简历 (簡歷) | jiǎn lì | curriculum vitae (CV); résumé |
| 历程 (歷程) | lì chéng | course; process |
| 历任 (歷任) | lì rèn | (of one person) to hold the successive posts of; (of several persons) the successive (presidents etc) |
| 史上 | shǐ shàng | in history |
| 史料 | shǐ liào | historical material or data |
| 女性 | nǚ xìng | woman; the female sex |
See also: Japanese symbol for “historic”.
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.