Chinese symbol for “profess”
自称
zì chēng
Traditional: 自稱
to call oneself; to claim to be; to profess; to claim a title
The closest CC-CEDICT match for profess is 自称 (zì chēng), defined as: to call oneself; to claim to be; to profess; to claim a title.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “profess”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 自称.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 自由 | zì yóu | freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted |
| 来自 (來自) | lái zì | to come from (a place); From: (in email header) |
| 自然 | zì rán | nature; natural |
| 自动 (自動) | zì dòng | automatic; voluntarily |
| 自身 | zì shēn | itself; oneself |
| 称为 (稱為) | chēng wéi | to be called; to be known as; to call it "..." |
| 名称 (名稱) | míng chēng | name (of a thing); name (of an organization) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “profess”.
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.