Chinese symbol for “indent”
缩排
suō pái
Traditional: 縮排
(typesetting) to indent
The closest CC-CEDICT match for indent is 缩排 (suō pái), defined as: (typesetting) to indent.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “indent”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缩格 (縮格) | suō gé | (typesetting) to indent |
| 缩进 (縮進) | suō jìn | to retreat into; to draw back into; (typography) to indent |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 缩排.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缩短 (縮短) | suō duǎn | to shorten; to reduce; to curtail |
| 缩小 (縮小) | suō xiǎo | to reduce; to decrease; to shrink |
| 压缩 (壓縮) | yā suō | to compress; compression |
| 收缩 (收縮) | shōu suō | to pull back; to shrink |
| 缩写 (縮寫) | suō xiě | abbreviation; to abridge |
| 紧缩 (緊縮) | jǐn suō | (economics) to reduce; to curtail |
| 安排 | ān pái | to arrange; to plan |
| 排名 | pái míng | to rank (1st, 2nd etc); ranking |
See also: Japanese symbol for “indent”.
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.