Chinese symbol for “minimal”
极小
jí xiǎo
Traditional: 極小
minimal; extremely small
The closest CC-CEDICT match for minimal is 极小 (jí xiǎo), defined as: minimal; extremely small.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “minimal”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 极小.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 积极 (積極) | jī jí | active; energetic |
| 极端 (極端) | jí duān | extreme |
| 极为 (極為) | jí wéi | extremely; exceedingly |
| 极大 (極大) | jí dà | enormous; great; (math.) maximum |
| 极其 (極其) | jí qí | extremely |
| 极度 (極度) | jí dù | extremely |
| 小时 (小時) | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 小说 (小說) | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction |
See also: Japanese symbol for “minimal”.
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.