Chinese symbol for “piccolo”
短笛
duǎn dí
piccolo
The closest CC-CEDICT match for piccolo is 短笛 (duǎn dí), defined as: piccolo.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 短笛.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 短期 | duǎn qī | short-term |
| 短片 | duǎn piàn | short film; video clip |
| 短暂 (短暫) | duǎn zàn | of short duration; brief; momentary |
| 缩短 (縮短) | suō duǎn | to shorten; to reduce; to curtail |
| 短缺 | duǎn quē | shortage |
| 短信 | duǎn xìn | text message; SMS |
| 笛子 | dí zi | bamboo flute; measure word: 管 (guǎn) |
| 长笛 (長笛) | cháng dí | (Western) concert flute |
See also: Japanese symbol for “piccolo”.
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.