Chinese symbol for “horizontal”
水平
shuǐ píng
horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for horizontal is 水平 (shuǐ píng), defined as: horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “horizontal”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 水平.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水果 | shuǐ guǒ | fruit |
| 水泥 | shuǐ ní | cement; measure word: 袋 (dài) |
| 洪水 | hóng shuǐ | deluge; flood |
| 水准 (水準) | shuǐ zhǔn | level (of achievement etc); standard |
| 水库 (水庫) | shuǐ kù | reservoir; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
| 平台 (平臺) | píng tái | platform; terrace |
| 和平 | hé píng | peace; peaceful |
| 平均 | píng jūn | average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions |
See also: Japanese symbol for “horizontal”.
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.