Chinese symbol for “importance”
重要性
zhòng yào xìng
importance
The closest CC-CEDICT match for importance is 重要性 (zhòng yào xìng), defined as: importance.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “importance”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 意义 (意義) | yì yì | sense; meaning |
| 痛痒 (痛癢) | tòng yǎng | pain and itch; sufferings |
| 斤两 (斤兩) | jīn liǎng | weight; (fig.) importance |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 重要性.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重要 | zhòng yào | important; significant; major |
| 严重 (嚴重) | yán zhòng | grave; serious; severe; critical |
| 重点 (重點) | chóng diǎn | to recount (e.g. results of election); to re-evaluate |
| 重新 | chóng xīn | again; once more; re- |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 需要 | xū yào | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs |
| 主要 | zhǔ yào | main; principal; major; primary |
| 要求 | yāo qiú | to request; to require |
| 女性 | nǚ xìng | woman; the female sex |
See also: Japanese symbol for “importance”.
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.