Chinese symbol for “indirectly”
间接
jiàn jiē
Traditional: 間接
indirectly; indirect
The closest CC-CEDICT match for indirectly is 间接 (jiàn jiē), defined as: indirectly; indirect.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “indirectly”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 间接.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
| 之间 (之間) | zhī jiān | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间 ( |
| 期间 (期間) | qī jiān | period of time; time |
| 空间 (空間) | kōng jiān | space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway |
| 民间 (民間) | mín jiān | among the people; popular |
| 中间 (中間) | zhōng jiān | the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among |
| 直接 | zhí jiē | directly; direct |
| 接受 | jiē shòu | to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce |
See also: Japanese symbol for “indirectly”.
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.