Chinese symbol for “passivity”
消极性
xiāo jí xìng
Traditional: 消極性
passive; passivity; negative; negativity
The closest CC-CEDICT match for passivity is 消极性 (xiāo jí xìng), defined as: passive; passivity; negative; negativity.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 消极性.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 消息 | xiāo xi | (piece of) news; information; message |
| 取消 | qǔ xiāo | to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind |
| 消费 (消費) | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 消失 | xiāo shī | to disappear; to fade away |
| 消费者 (消費者) | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 积极 (積極) | jī jí | active; energetic |
| 极端 (極端) | jí duān | extreme |
| 女性 | nǚ xìng | woman; the female sex |
See also: Japanese symbol for “passivity”.
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.