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Chinese symbol for “rent”

出租
chū zū
to rent

The closest CC-CEDICT match for rent is 出租 (chū zū), defined as: to rent.

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Characters and stroke order

出 chū
to go out, to send out; stand; produce
radical 17 ⼐ · 5 strokes
租 zū
to rent, to lease; tax, rent
radical 115 ⽲ · 10 strokes

Other Chinese words for “rent”

WordPinyinMeaning
租赁 (租賃)zū lìnto rent; to lease; to hire
租金zū jīnrent
租借zū jièto rent; to lease
承租chéng zūto rent; to lease
赁 (賃)lìnto rent

Related words

Other words that share a character with 出租.

WordPinyinMeaning
出现 (出現)chū xiànto appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up
出来 (出來)chū láito come out; to appear
提出tí chūto raise (an issue); to propose
指出zhǐ chūto indicate; to point out
出版chū bǎnto publish
出租车 (出租車)chū zū chētaxi; (Tw) rental car
租赁 (租賃)zū lìnto rent; to lease; to hire
租金zū jīnrent

See also: Japanese symbol for “rent”.

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.