Chinese symbol for “meritocracy”
优绩主义
yōu jì zhǔ yì
Traditional: 優績主義
meritocracy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for meritocracy is 优绩主义 (yōu jì zhǔ yì), defined as: meritocracy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “meritocracy”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 优绩主义.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 优秀 (優秀) | yōu xiù | outstanding; excellent |
| 优势 (優勢) | yōu shì | superiority; dominance |
| 优惠 (優惠) | yōu huì | privilege; favorable (terms) |
| 优先 (優先) | yōu xiān | to have priority; to take precedence |
| 优质 (優質) | yōu zhì | excellent quality |
| 优化 (優化) | yōu huà | to optimize; (corporate euphemism) to lay off staff |
| 成绩 (成績) | chéng jì | achievement; performance records |
| 业绩 (業績) | yè jì | achievement; accomplishment; (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results |
| 主要 | zhǔ yào | main; principal; major; primary |
| 意义 (意義) | yì yì | sense; meaning |
See also: Japanese symbol for “meritocracy”.
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.