Chinese symbol for “perpetual”
永久
yǒng jiǔ
everlasting; perpetual; lasting; forever
The closest CC-CEDICT match for perpetual is 永久 (yǒng jiǔ), defined as: everlasting; perpetual; lasting; forever; permanent.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “perpetual”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 永久.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 永远 (永遠) | yǒng yuǎn | forever; eternal |
| 永恒 (永恆) | yǒng héng | eternal; everlasting |
| 永不 | yǒng bù | never; will never |
| 永生 | yǒng shēng | to live forever; eternal life |
| 永久性 | yǒng jiǔ xìng | permanent |
| 不久 | bù jiǔ | not long (after); before too long |
| 多久 | duō jiǔ | (of time) how long?; (not) a long time |
| 长久 (長久) | cháng jiǔ | long-time; long-term; lasting; enduring; permanent |
See also: Japanese symbol for “perpetual”.
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.