Chinese symbol for “iterate”
迭代
dié dài
to iterate; (literary) to alternate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for iterate is 迭代 (dié dài), defined as: to iterate; (literary) to alternate.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 迭代.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 更迭 | gēng dié | to alternate; to change |
| 迭起 | dié qǐ | continuously arising; to arise repeatedly |
| 迷迭香 | mí dié xiāng | rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) |
| 高潮迭起 | gāo cháo dié qǐ | each new high point replaced by another; (of a movie etc) one climax after another |
| 重迭 | chóng dié | variant of 重叠 (chóng dié) |
| 代表 | dài biǎo | representative; delegate |
| 时代 (時代) | shí dài | age; era |
| 年代 | nián dài | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age |
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.
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