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Chinese symbol for “nadir”

最低点
zuì dī diǎn
Traditional: 最低點
lowest point; nadir; minimum level

The closest CC-CEDICT match for nadir is 最低点 (zuì dī diǎn), defined as: lowest point; nadir; minimum level.

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Characters and stroke order

最 zuì
most, extremely, exceedingly; superlative
radical 13 ⼌ · 12 strokes
低 dī
low; to lower, to hang; to bend, to bow
radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes
点 diǎn
dot, point, speck
radical 86 ⽕ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “nadir”

WordPinyinMeaning
天底tiān dǐ(astronomy) nadir
最低谷zuì dī gǔlowest point; nadir

Related words

Other words that share a character with 最低点.

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
降低jiàng dīto reduce; to lower; to bring down
低于 (低於)dī yúto be lower than
一点 (一點)yī diǎna bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit

See also: Japanese symbol for “nadir”.

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.