Chinese symbol for “rewrite”
缮
shàn
Traditional: 繕
to repair; to mend; to rewrite; to transcribe
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rewrite is 缮 (shàn), defined as: to repair; to mend; to rewrite; to transcribe.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 缮.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 修缮 (修繕) | xiū shàn | to renovate; to repair (a building) |
| 缮写 (繕寫) | shàn xiě | to copy; to transcribe |
| 缮清 (繕清) | shàn qīng | to make a clean copy |
| 误缮 (誤繕) | wù shàn | to miswrite (while copying written material); to transcribe incorrectly; to make a clerical error |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rewrite”.
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.