Chinese symbol for “restart”
重启
chóng qǐ
Traditional: 重啟
to restart (a machine etc); to reactivate (a postponed project etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for restart is 重启 (chóng qǐ), defined as: to restart (a machine etc); to reactivate (a postponed project etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “restart”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重新启动 (重新啟動) | chóng xīn qǐ dòng | to reboot; to restart |
| 重新开机 (重新開機) | chóng xīn kāi jī | to restart; to reboot |
| 重新开始 (重新開始) | chóng xīn kāi shǐ | to resume; to restart; to start afresh |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 重启.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重要 | zhòng yào | important; significant; major |
| 严重 (嚴重) | yán zhòng | grave; serious; severe; critical |
| 重点 (重點) | chóng diǎn | to recount (e.g. results of election); to re-evaluate |
| 重新 | chóng xīn | again; once more; re- |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 启动 (啟動) | qǐ dòng | to start (a machine); (fig.) to set in motion |
| 开启 (開啟) | kāi qǐ | to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc); (computing) to enable (a feature) |
| 启用 (啟用) | qǐ yòng | to start using; (computing) to enable (a feature) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “restart”.
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.