Chinese symbol for “reduce”
降低
jiàng dī
to reduce; to lower; to bring down
The closest CC-CEDICT match for reduce is 降低 (jiàng dī), defined as: to reduce; to lower; to bring down.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “reduce”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缩小 (縮小) | suō xiǎo | to reduce; to decrease; to shrink |
| 紧缩 (緊縮) | jǐn suō | (economics) to reduce; to curtail |
| 减少 (減少) | jiǎn shǎo | to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower |
| 减小 (減小) | jiǎn xiǎo | to reduce; to decrease |
| 去 | qù | to go; to go to (a place) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 降低.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 下降 | xià jiàng | to decline; to drop |
| 投降 | tóu xiáng | to surrender |
| 降落 | jiàng luò | to descend; to land |
| 降临 (降臨) | jiàng lín | to descend; to arrive |
| 降价 (降價) | jiàng jià | to cut the price; to drive down the price |
| 低于 (低於) | dī yú | to be lower than |
| 低下 | dī xià | low status; lowly |
| 高低 | gāo dī | height; level; (music) pitch; relative superiority |
See also: Japanese symbol for “reduce”.
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.