Chinese symbol for “romance”
爱情
ài qíng
Traditional: 愛情
romance; love (romantic); measure word: 份 (fèn)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for romance is 爱情 (ài qíng), defined as: romance; love (romantic); measure word: 份 (fèn).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “romance”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罗曼史 (羅曼史) | luó màn shǐ | romance (loanword); love affair |
| 风月 (風月) | fēng yuè | romance; beautiful scenery |
| 传奇 (傳奇) | chuán qí | legendary; fantasy saga |
| 风流韵事 (風流韻事) | fēng liú yùn shì | poetic and passionate (idiom); romance; love affair |
| 艳遇 (艷遇) | yàn yù | encounter with a beautiful woman; romance |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 爱情.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 可爱 (可愛) | kě ài | adorable; cute |
| 爱国 (愛國) | ài guó | to love one's country; patriotic |
| 喜爱 (喜愛) | xǐ ài | to like; to love |
| 亲爱 (親愛) | qīn ài | dear; beloved |
| 热爱 (熱愛) | rè ài | to love ardently; to adore |
| 情况 (情況) | qíng kuàng | circumstances; state of affairs; situation; 种 (zhǒng) |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
| 情绪 (情緒) | qíng xù | mood; state of mind |
See also: Japanese symbol for “romance”.
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.