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Chinese symbol for “minimize”

最小化
zuì xiǎo huà
to minimize

The closest CC-CEDICT match for minimize is 最小化 (zuì xiǎo huà), defined as: to minimize.

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Characters and stroke order

最 zuì
most, extremely, exceedingly; superlative
radical 13 ⼌ · 12 strokes
小 xiǎo
small, tiny, insignificant
radical 42 ⼩ · 3 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 最小化.

WordPinyinMeaning
最后 (最後)zuì hòufinal; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
最高zuì gāotallest; highest
最近zuì jìnrecently; soon
最终 (最終)zuì zhōngfinal; ultimate
最好zuì hǎobest; had better ...; it would be best to ...
最佳zuì jiāoptimum; optimal
小时 (小時)xiǎo shíhour
小说 (小說)xiǎo shuōnovel; fiction
文化wén huàculture; civilization

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.