Chinese symbol for “record”
记录
jì lù
Traditional: 記錄
to record; record (esp. a written account); notetaker; record (e.g. in sports)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for record is 记录 (jì lù), defined as: to record; record (esp. a written account); notetaker; record (e.g. in sports).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “record”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 记 (記) | jì | to record; to note |
| 识 (識) | zhì | to record; to write a footnote |
| 录制 (錄製) | lù zhì | to record (video or audio) |
| 档案 (檔案) | dàng àn | file; record; archive |
| 籍 | jí | (bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 记录.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 记者 (記者) | jì zhě | reporter; journalist; 个 (gè) |
| 记得 (記得) | jì de | to remember |
| 书记 (書記) | shū ji | secretary (head of a Communist Party or Communist Youth League organization); clerk; scribe |
| 忘记 (忘記) | wàng jì | to forget |
| 记忆 (記憶) | jì yì | to remember; to recall; memory |
| 纪录 (紀錄) | jì lù | variant of 记录 (jì lù); (Note: In mainland China, 纪录 is preferred for the sense "record (e.g. in sports)". In Taiwan, 紀錄 is generally preferr |
| 目录 (目錄) | mù lù | catalog; table of contents |
| 录音 (錄音) | lù yīn | to record sound; an audio recording (CL:段 (duàn)) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “record”.
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.