Chinese symbol for “relevant”
相干
xiāng gān
relevant; to have to do with; (physics) (of light etc) coherent
The closest CC-CEDICT match for relevant is 相干 (xiāng gān), defined as: relevant; to have to do with; (physics) (of light etc) coherent.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “relevant”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 相关 (相關) | xiāng guān | related; relevant |
| 相应 (相應) | xiāng yìng | to correspond; answering (one another) |
| 贴题 (貼題) | tiē tí | relevant; pertinent |
| 归口 (歸口) | guī kǒu | to return to one's original trade; to put (a business etc) under the administration of the relevant central authority |
| 着边 (著邊) | zháo biān | relevant; to the point |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 相干.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 相关 (相關) | xiāng guān | related; relevant |
| 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 |
| 干部 (幹部) | gàn bù | cadre; official |
| 干净 (乾淨) | gān jìng | clean; neat |
See also: Japanese symbol for “relevant”.
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.