Chinese symbol for “justify”
辩解
biàn jiě
Traditional: 辯解
to explain; to justify; to defend (a point of view etc); to provide an explanation
The closest CC-CEDICT match for justify is 辩解 (biàn jiě), defined as: to explain; to justify; to defend (a point of view etc); to provide an explanation; to try to defend oneself.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “justify”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 辩解.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辩论 (辯論) | biàn lùn | debate; argument |
| 辩护 (辯護) | biàn hù | to speak in defense of; to argue in favor of |
| 争辩 (爭辯) | zhēng biàn | a dispute; to wrangle |
| 辩证法 (辯證法) | biàn zhèng fǎ | dialectics; dialectic or Socratic method of debate |
| 答辩 (答辯) | dá biàn | to reply (to an accusation); to defend one's dissertation |
| 了解 | liǎo jiě | to understand; to know about; to learn about; to find out |
| 解决 (解決) | jiě jué | to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc) |
| 解释 (解釋) | jiě shì | explanation; to explain |
See also: Japanese symbol for “justify”.
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.