Chinese symbol for “memorial”
追思
zhuī sī
memorial; recollection (of the deceased)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for memorial is 追思 (zhuī sī), defined as: memorial; recollection (of the deceased).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “memorial”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 呈 | chéng | to present to a superior; memorial |
| 受难纪念 (受難紀念) | shòu nán jì niàn | memorial |
| 传报 (傳報) | chuán bào | notification; memorial |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 追思.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 追求 | zhuī qiú | to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after |
| 追踪 (追蹤) | zhuī zōng | to track; to trace; to follow up; (HK, Tw) to follow (on social media) |
| 追究 | zhuī jiū | to investigate; to look into |
| 追加 | zhuī jiā | to add something extra; an additional increment |
| 追逐 | zhuī zhú | to chase; to pursue vigorously |
| 追溯 | zhuī sù | lit. to go upstream; to trace sth back to |
| 意思 | yì si | idea; opinion |
| 思想 | sī xiǎng | thought; thinking |
See also: Japanese symbol for “memorial”.
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.