Chinese symbol for “offender”
肇事者
zhào shì zhě
offender; culprit
The closest CC-CEDICT match for offender is 肇事者 (zhào shì zhě), defined as: offender; culprit.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “offender”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 肇事者.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肇事 | zhào shì | to cause an accident; to be responsible for an incident |
| 肇因 | zhào yīn | cause; origin |
| 肇始 | zhào shǐ | to initiate; to start |
| 肇祸 (肇禍) | zhào huò | to cause an accident |
| 肇端 | zhào duān | the starting point |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | incident; event |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
| 故事 | gù shì | old practice |
| 记者 (記者) | jì zhě | reporter; journalist; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “offender”.
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.