Chinese symbol for “quoted”

摘译

zhāi yì

Traditional: 摘譯

quoted (from); translation of selected passages

The closest CC-CEDICT match for quoted is 摘译 (zhāi yì), defined as: quoted (from); translation of selected passages.

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Characters and stroke order

摘 zhāi

to pick, to pluck, to select, to take

radical 64 ⼿ · 14 strokes

译 yì

to translate, to interpret; to encode, to decode

radical 149 ⾔ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

譯 yì

Related words

Other words that share a character with 摘译.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
摘要	zhāi yào	summary; abstract
摘下	zhāi xià	to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc); to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc)
文摘	wén zhāi	digest (of literature); to make a digest (of data)
摘录 (摘錄)	zhāi lù	to extract; to excerpt
采摘 (採摘)	cǎi zhāi	to pluck; to pick
指摘	zhǐ zhāi	to criticize
翻译 (翻譯)	fān yì	to translate; to interpret
编译 (編譯)	biān yì	to translate and edit; translator-editor

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.