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Chinese symbol for “pansy”

三色堇
sān sè jǐn
pansy

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pansy is 三色堇 (sān sè jǐn), defined as: pansy.

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Characters and stroke order

三 sān
three
radical 1 ⼀ · 3 strokes
色 sè
color, tint, hue, shade; beauty, form; sex
radical 139 ⾊ · 6 strokes
堇 jǐn
yellow loam; clay; season; few
radical 32 ⼟ · 11 strokes

Other Chinese words for “pansy”

WordPinyinMeaning
三色紫罗兰 (三色紫羅蘭)sān sè zǐ luó lánpansy

Related words

Other words that share a character with 三色堇.

WordPinyinMeaning
三星sān xīngthree major stars of the Three Stars 参宿 (Shēn xiù) Chinese constellation; the belt of Orion
三次sān cìthird; three times
三级 (三級)sān jígrade 3; third class
十三shí sānthirteen; 13
三分sān fēnsomewhat; to some degree
第三方dì sān fāngthird party
角色jué sèrole; part (in a play or movie etc); also pr. [jiao3se4]
特色tè sèa characteristic; a distinctive feature or quality
堇菜jǐn càiviolet (botany)

See also: Japanese symbol for “pansy”.

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.