Chinese symbol for “respective”
各自
gè zì
each; respective; apiece
The closest CC-CEDICT match for respective is 各自 (gè zì), defined as: each; respective; apiece.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 各自.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 各种 (各種) | gè zhǒng | every kind of; all kinds of; various |
| 各国 (各國) | gè guó | each country; every country |
| 各地 | gè dì | in all parts of (a country); various regions |
| 各位 | gè wèi | everybody; all (guests, colleagues etc) |
| 各个 (各個) | gè gè | every; various |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 自由 | zì yóu | freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted |
| 来自 (來自) | lái zì | to come from (a place); From: (in email header) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “respective”.
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.