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Chinese symbol for “scaling”

缩放
suō fàng
Traditional: 縮放
scaling; resizing; zoom (graphics)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for scaling is 缩放 (suō fàng), defined as: scaling; resizing; zoom (graphics).

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Characters and stroke order

缩 suō
to withdraw, to shrink, to pull back; abbreviation
radical 120 ⽷ · 14 strokes
放 fàng
to release, to liberate, to free
radical 66 ⽁ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 缩放.

WordPinyinMeaning
缩短 (縮短)suō duǎnto shorten; to reduce; to curtail
缩小 (縮小)suō xiǎoto reduce; to decrease; to shrink
压缩 (壓縮)yā suōto compress; compression
收缩 (收縮)shōu suōto pull back; to shrink
缩写 (縮寫)suō xiěabbreviation; to abridge
紧缩 (緊縮)jǐn suō(economics) to reduce; to curtail
开放 (開放)kāi fàngto bloom; to open
放弃 (放棄)fàng qìto renounce; to abandon; to give up

See also: Japanese symbol for “scaling”.

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.