Chinese symbol for “initiate”
创
chuàng
Traditional: 創
to initiate; to create; to achieve (sth for the first time)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for initiate is 创 (chuàng), defined as: to initiate; to create; to achieve (sth for the first time).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “initiate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开创 (開創) | kāi chuàng | to initiate; to start; to found |
| 创始 (創始) | chuàng shǐ | to initiate; to found |
| 开启 (開啟) | kāi qǐ | to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc); (computing) to enable (a feature) |
| 倡 | chàng | to initiate; to instigate |
| 起 | qǐ | to rise; to raise |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 创.
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “initiate”.
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.