Chinese symbol for “precession”
岁差
suì chā
Traditional: 歲差
(astronomy) precession
The closest CC-CEDICT match for precession is 岁差 (suì chā), defined as: (astronomy) precession.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “precession”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 岁差.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 万岁 (萬歲) | wàn suì | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty |
| 岁月 (歲月) | suì yuè | years; time |
| 几岁 (幾歲) | jǐ suì | how old are you? (familiar, or to a child) |
| 周岁 (週歲) | zhōu suì | one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday) |
| 岁数 (歲數) | suì shu | age (number of years old) |
| 贺岁 (賀歲) | hè suì | to extend New Year's greetings; to pay a New Year's visit |
| 差异 (差異) | chā yì | difference; discrepancy |
| 差不多 | chà bu duō | almost; nearly |
See also: Japanese symbol for “precession”.
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.