Chinese symbol for “jinx”
扫帚星
sào zhou xīng
Traditional: 掃帚星
comet; person who brings bad luck; jinx
The closest CC-CEDICT match for jinx is 扫帚星 (sào zhou xīng), defined as: comet; person who brings bad luck; jinx.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “jinx”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 扫帚星.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扫描 (掃描) | sǎo miáo | to scan |
| 打扫 (打掃) | dǎ sǎo | to clean; to sweep |
| 横扫 (橫掃) | héng sǎo | to sweep away; to sweep across |
| 扫除 (掃除) | sǎo chú | to clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe out |
| 扫荡 (掃蕩) | sǎo dàng | (military) to mop up; to crack down on; to eradicate |
| 扫地 (掃地) | sǎo dì | to sweep the floor; (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom |
| 扫帚 (掃帚) | sào zhou | broom |
| 笤帚 | tiáo zhou | whisk broom; small broom |
| 星期 | xīng qī | week; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “jinx”.
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.