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Chinese symbol for “protestant”

新教徒
xīn jiào tú
Protestant; adherent of Protestantism

The closest CC-CEDICT match for protestant is 新教徒 (xīn jiào tú), defined as: Protestant; adherent of Protestantism.

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Characters and stroke order

新 xīn
new, recent, fresh, modern
radical 69 ⽄ · 13 strokes
教 jiào
school, education
radical 66 ⽁ · 11 strokes
徒 tú
disciple, follower; only, merely; in vain
radical 60 ⼻ · 10 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 新教徒.

WordPinyinMeaning
新闻 (新聞)xīn wénnews; 条 (tiáo)
重新chóng xīnagain; once more; re-
创新 (創新)chuàng xīnto bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation
更新gēng xīnto replace the old with new; to renew
最新zuì xīnlatest; newest
新型xīn xíngnew type; new kind
教育jiào yùto educate; to teach
教师 (教師)jiào shīteacher; 个 (gè)
信徒xìn túbeliever

See also: Japanese symbol for “protestant”.

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.