Chinese symbol for “minor”
未成年人
wèi chéng nián rén
minor (i.e. person under 18)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for minor is 未成年人 (wèi chéng nián rén), defined as: minor (i.e. person under 18).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “minor”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 些微 | xiē wēi | slight; minor; small; slightly |
| 辅修 (輔修) | fǔ xiū | (education) to minor in; minor |
| 未冠 | wèi guān | minor (old usage, person under 20) |
| 未成冠 | wèi chéng guān | minor (old usage, person under 20) |
| 未成年者 | wèi chéng nián zhě | minor (not an adult) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 未成年人.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 未来 (未來) | wèi lái | future; tomorrow |
| 尚未 | shàng wèi | not yet; still not |
| 从未 (從未) | cóng wèi | never |
| 并未 (並未) | bìng wèi | (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ... |
| 未能 | wèi néng | cannot; to fail to |
| 未经 (未經) | wèi jīng | not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process) |
| 成为 (成為) | chéng wéi | to become; to turn into |
| 完成 | wán chéng | to complete; to accomplish |
| 年代 | nián dài | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
See also: Japanese symbol for “minor”.
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.