Chinese symbol for “insinuate”
影射
yǐng shè
to refer obliquely to; to insinuate; innuendo
The closest CC-CEDICT match for insinuate is 影射 (yǐng shè), defined as: to refer obliquely to; to insinuate; innuendo.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “insinuate”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 影射.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 影响 (影響) | yǐng xiǎng | influence; effect |
| 电影 (電影) | diàn yǐng | movie; film; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 影片 | yǐng piàn | a copy of a film; film; motion picture; movie |
| 摄影 (攝影) | shè yǐng | to take a photograph; photography |
| 影响力 (影響力) | yǐng xiǎng lì | influence; impact |
| 影像 | yǐng xiàng | image |
| 发射 (發射) | fā shè | to shoot (a projectile); to fire (a rocket) |
| 辐射 (輻射) | fú shè | to radiate; radiation |
See also: Japanese symbol for “insinuate”.
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.