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Chinese symbol for “litigation”

讼
sòng
Traditional: 訟
litigation

The closest CC-CEDICT match for litigation is 讼 (sòng), defined as: litigation.

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Characters and stroke order

讼 sòng
to accuse, to argue; to dispute, to litigate
radical 149 ⾔ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 讼.

WordPinyinMeaning
诉讼 (訴訟)sù sònglawsuit
诉讼法 (訴訟法)sù sòng fǎprocedural law
民事诉讼 (民事訴訟)mín shì sù sòngcommon plea; civil appeal (as opposed to criminal case)
讼案 (訟案)sòng ànlawsuit
涉讼 (涉訟)shè sòngto be involved in a lawsuit
争讼 (爭訟)zhēng sòngdispute involving litigation; legal dispute

See also: Japanese symbol for “litigation”.

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.