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Chinese symbol for “playoff”

季后赛
jì hòu sài
Traditional: 季後賽
a playoff

The closest CC-CEDICT match for playoff is 季后赛 (jì hòu sài), defined as: a playoff.

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Characters and stroke order

季 jì
a quarter-year, a season; surname
radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes
后 hòu
after; behind, rear; descendants
radical 30 ⼝ · 6 strokes
赛 sài
to compete, to contend; contest, race
radical 154 ⾙ · 14 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 季后赛.

WordPinyinMeaning
赛季 (賽季)sài jìseason (sports)
季节 (季節)jì jiétime; season
冬季dōng jìwinter
夏季xià jìsummer
季度jì dùquarter of a year; season (sports)
春季chūn jìspringtime
最后 (最後)zuì hòufinal; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
之后 (之後)zhī hòuafter; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
比赛 (比賽)bǐ sàicompetition (sports etc); match

See also: Japanese symbol for “playoff”.

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.