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.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “plaintiff”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 提告人 | tí gào rén | plaintiff |
| 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.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 原因 | yuán yīn | cause; origin |
| 原来 (原來) | yuán lái | original; former; originally; formerly; at first |
| 原则 (原則) | yuán zé | principle; doctrine |
| 原本 | yuán běn | originally; the original; original copy; original version |
| 原始 | yuán shǐ | first; original |
| 原理 | yuán lǐ | principle; theory |
| 报告 (報告) | bào gào | to inform; to report |
| 告诉 (告訴) | gào sù | to 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.