Chinese symbol for “ingenuity”
创造力
chuàng zào lì
Traditional: 創造力
ingenuity; creativity
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ingenuity is 创造力 (chuàng zào lì), defined as: ingenuity; creativity.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “ingenuity”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 匠心 | jiàng xīn | ingenuity; craftsmanship |
| 巧妙 | qiǎo miào | ingenious; clever; ingenuity; artifice |
| 智谋 (智謀) | zhì móu | resourcefulness; ingenuity |
| 巧思 | qiǎo sī | innovative thinking; ingenuity |
| 独创性 (獨創性) | dú chuàng xìng | innovative; ingenious; originality; ingenuity |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 创造力.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 创新 (創新) | chuàng xīn | to bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation |
| 创造 (創造) | chuàng zào | to create; to bring about |
| 创作 (創作) | chuàng zuò | to create; to produce; to write; a creative work; a creation |
| 创建 (創建) | chuàng jiàn | to found; to establish |
| 创业 (創業) | chuàng yè | to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise; entrepreneurship |
| 创立 (創立) | chuàng lì | to establish; to set up; to found |
| 造成 | zào chéng | to bring about; to create; to cause |
| 制造 (製造) | zhì zào | to manufacture; to make |
| 能力 | néng lì | capability; ability |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ingenuity”.
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.