Chinese symbol for “restoration”
中兴
zhōng xīng
Traditional: 中興
resurgence; recovery; restoration
The closest CC-CEDICT match for restoration is 中兴 (zhōng xīng), defined as: resurgence; recovery; restoration.
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Characters and stroke order
中 zhōng
central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Ch
radical 2 ⼁ · 4 strokes
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “restoration”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 复辟 (復辟) | fù bì | to recover one's power or authority; restoration (of a past regime) |
| 规复 (規復) | guī fù | to restore (deposed monarch, rule, system of laws, ecological system etc); restoration |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 中兴.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其中 | qí zhōng | among; in |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 中央 | zhōng yāng | central; middle |
| 中学 (中學) | zhōng xué | middle school |
| 之中 | zhī zhōng | inside; among |
| 集中 | jí zhōng | to concentrate; to centralize |
| 兴趣 (興趣) | xìng qù | interest (desire to know about sth); interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby |
| 高兴 (高興) | gāo xìng | happy; glad |
See also: Japanese symbol for “restoration”.
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.