Chinese symbol for “parasitic”
寄生
jì shēng
to live in or on another organism as a parasite; to live by taking advantage of others; parasitism; parasitic
The closest CC-CEDICT match for parasitic is 寄生 (jì shēng), defined as: to live in or on another organism as a parasite; to live by taking advantage of others; parasitism; parasitic.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 寄生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寄托 (寄託) | jì tuō | to entrust (to sb); to place (one's hope, energy etc) in |
| 寄宿 | jì sù | to stay; to lodge; to board |
| 寄生虫 (寄生蟲) | jì shēng chóng | parasite (biology); (fig.) freeloader |
| 邮寄 (郵寄) | yóu jì | to mail; to send by post |
| 寄出 | jì chū | to mail; to send by post |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
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.