Chinese symbol for “related”
相关
xiāng guān
Traditional: 相關
related; relevant; pertinent; to be interrelated
The closest CC-CEDICT match for related is 相关 (xiāng guān), defined as: related; relevant; pertinent; to be interrelated; (statistics) correlation.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “related”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有缘 (有緣) | yǒu yuán | related; brought together by fate |
| 亲 (親) | qīn | parent; one's own (flesh and blood) |
| 支与流裔 (支與流裔) | zhī yǔ liú yì | lit. branches and descendants; of a similar kind |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 相关.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 相信 | xiāng xìn | to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true |
| 相当 (相當) | xiāng dāng | equivalent to; appropriate |
| 相同 | xiāng tóng | identical; same |
| 相对 (相對) | xiāng duì | relatively; opposite |
| 互相 | hù xiāng | each other; mutually |
| 关系 (關係) | guān xi | relation; relationship; connection; to concern; to involve; to affect |
| 关于 (關於) | guān yú | pertaining to; concerning |
| 有关 (有關) | yǒu guān | to have sth to do with; to relate to |
See also: Japanese symbol for “related”.
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.