Chinese symbol for “juggling”
杂耍
zá shuǎ
Traditional: 雜耍
a sideshow; vaudeville; juggling
The closest CC-CEDICT match for juggling is 杂耍 (zá shuǎ), defined as: a sideshow; vaudeville; juggling.
Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.
Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 杂耍.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 复杂 (複雜) | fù zá | complicated; complex |
| 杂志 (雜誌) | zá zhì | magazine; measure word: 本 (běn), 份 (fèn), 期 (qī) |
| 杂交 (雜交) | zá jiāo | to hybridize; to crossbreed |
| 杂种 (雜種) | zá zhǒng | hybrid; mixed breed |
| 混杂 (混雜) | hùn zá | to mix; to mingle |
| 杂草 (雜草) | zá cǎo | weeds |
| 玩耍 | wán shuǎ | to play (as children do); to amuse oneself |
| 耍赖 (耍賴) | shuǎ lài | to act shamelessly; to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc |
See also: Japanese symbol for “juggling”.
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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