Chinese symbol for “pacing”

步测

bù cè

Traditional: 步測

pacing

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pacing is 步测 (bù cè), defined as: pacing.

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Characters and stroke order

步 bù

walk, stroll, pace, march; to make progress

radical 77 ⽌ · 7 strokes

测 cè

to survey, to measure; to estimate, to conjecture

radical 85 ⽔ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

測 cè

Related words

Other words that share a character with 步测.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
进一步 (進一步)	jìn yī bù	to go a step further; (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further
进步 (進步)	jìn bù	progress; improvement; to improve; to progress
逐步	zhú bù	progressively; step by step
同步	tóng bù	synchronous; to synchronize
初步	chū bù	initial; preliminary
步骤 (步驟)	bù zhòu	procedure; step
测试 (測試)	cè shì	to test (machinery etc); to test (a person's skill in a particular area)
预测 (預測)	yù cè	to forecast; to predict

See also: Japanese symbol for “pacing”.

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.