Chinese symbol for “reminiscent”
触景生情
chù jǐng shēng qíng
Traditional: 觸景生情
scene which recalls past memories (idiom); evocative of the past; reminiscent; to arouse deep feelings
The closest CC-CEDICT match for reminiscent is 触景生情 (chù jǐng shēng qíng), defined as: scene which recalls past memories (idiom); evocative of the past; reminiscent; to arouse deep feelings.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 触景生情.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 接触 (接觸) | jiē chù | to touch; to contact |
| 触及 (觸及) | chù jí | to touch (physically, one's feelings etc); to touch on (a topic) |
| 触动 (觸動) | chù dòng | to touch; to stir up (trouble or emotions) |
| 触发 (觸發) | chù fā | to trigger; to spark |
| 抵触 (抵觸) | dǐ chù | to conflict; to contradict |
| 触犯 (觸犯) | chù fàn | to violate; to offend |
| 背景 | bèi jǐng | background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer |
| 场景 (場景) | chǎng jǐng | scene; scenario; situation; setting |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 情况 (情況) | qíng kuàng | circumstances; state of affairs; situation; 种 (zhǒng) |
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.