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

迭 dié

repeatedly, frequently

radical 162 ⾡ · 9 strokes

代 dài

era, generation; to substitute for, to replace

radical 9 ⼈ · 5 strokes

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.