Chinese symbol for “hysteria”
歇斯底里
xiē sī dǐ lǐ
hysteria (loanword); hysterical
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hysteria is 歇斯底里 (xiē sī dǐ lǐ), defined as: hysteria (loanword); hysterical.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “hysteria”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 歇斯底里.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 停歇 | tíng xiē | to stop for a rest |
| 间歇 (間歇) | jiàn xiē | to stop in the middle of sth; intermittent |
| 歇业 (歇業) | xiē yè | to close down (temporarily or permanently); to go out of business |
| 歇息 | xiē xi | to have a rest; to stay for the night |
| 歇后语 (歇後語) | xiē hòu yǔ | anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented |
| 法西斯 | fǎ xī sī | fascist (loanword) |
| 瓦斯 | wǎ sī | gas (loanword) |
| 布鲁斯 (布魯斯) | bù lǔ sī | blues (music) (loanword) |
| 到底 | dào dǐ | finally; in the end |
| 这里 (這裏) | zhè lǐ | variant of 这里 (zhè lǐ) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hysteria”.
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.