Chinese symbol for “selflessness”
忘我
wàng wǒ
selflessness; altruism
The closest CC-CEDICT match for selflessness is 忘我 (wàng wǒ), defined as: selflessness; altruism.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “selflessness”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 忘我.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 忘记 (忘記) | wàng jì | to forget |
| 遗忘 (遺忘) | yí wàng | to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore |
| 备忘录 (備忘錄) | bèi wàng lù | memorandum; aide-memoire |
| 难忘 (難忘) | nán wàng | unforgettable |
| 忘掉 | wàng diào | to forget |
| 忘却 (忘卻) | wàng què | (literary) to put out of one's mind; to forget |
| 我们 (我們) | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves |
| 我国 (我國) | wǒ guó | my country; our country |
See also: Japanese symbol for “selflessness”.
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.