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Chinese symbol for “pronoun”

代名词
dài míng cí
Traditional: 代名詞
pronoun; synonym; byword

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pronoun is 代名词 (dài míng cí), defined as: pronoun; synonym; byword.

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Characters and stroke order

代 dài
era, generation; to substitute for, to replace
radical 9 ⼈ · 5 strokes
名 míng
name; position, rank, title
radical 30 ⼝ · 6 strokes
词 cí
phrase, expression; words, speech
radical 149 ⾔ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “pronoun”

WordPinyinMeaning
代词 (代詞)dài cípronoun

Related words

Other words that share a character with 代名词.

WordPinyinMeaning
代表dài biǎorepresentative; delegate
时代 (時代)shí dàiage; era
年代nián dàia decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age
现代 (現代)xiàn dàimodern times; modern age
代理dài lǐto act on behalf of sb in a responsible position; to act as an agent or proxy
古代gǔ dàiancient times
名字míng ziname (of a person or thing)
著名zhù míngfamous; noted
歌词 (歌詞)gē císong lyric; lyrics

See also: Japanese symbol for “pronoun”.

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.