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Chinese symbol for “plaintiff”

原告
yuán gào
complainant; plaintiff

The closest CC-CEDICT match for plaintiff is 原告 (yuán gào), defined as: complainant; plaintiff.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

原 yuán
source, origin, beginning
radical 27 ⼚ · 10 strokes
告 gào
to tell, to inform, to announce; to accuse
radical 30 ⼝ · 7 strokes

Other Chinese words for “plaintiff”

WordPinyinMeaning
提告人tí gào rénplaintiff
起诉者 (起訴者)qǐ sù zhě(law) plaintiff (in a civil case); prosecutor (in a criminal case)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 原告.

WordPinyinMeaning
原因yuán yīncause; origin
原来 (原來)yuán láioriginal; former; originally; formerly; at first
原则 (原則)yuán zéprinciple; doctrine
原本yuán běnoriginally; the original; original copy; original version
原始yuán shǐfirst; original
原理yuán lǐprinciple; theory
报告 (報告)bào gàoto inform; to report
告诉 (告訴)gào sùto press charges; to file a complaint

See also: Japanese symbol for “plaintiff”.

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.

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