Chinese symbol for “prologue”
序幕
xù mù
prologue
The closest CC-CEDICT match for prologue is 序幕 (xù mù), defined as: prologue.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “prologue”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 序幕.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 程序 | chéng xù | procedures; sequence |
| 秩序 | zhì xù | order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc) |
| 顺序 (順序) | shùn xù | sequence; order |
| 应用程序 (應用程序) | yìng yòng chéng xù | (computing) program; application |
| 序列 | xù liè | sequence |
| 排序 | pái xù | to sort; to arrange in order |
| 开幕 (開幕) | kāi mù | to open (a conference); to inaugurate |
| 幕后 (幕後) | mù hòu | behind the scenes |
See also: Japanese symbol for “prologue”.
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.