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Chinese symbol for “semiautomatic”

半自动
bàn zì dòng
Traditional: 半自動
semiautomatic

The closest CC-CEDICT match for semiautomatic is 半自动 (bàn zì dòng), defined as: semiautomatic.

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Characters and stroke order

半 bàn
half; semi-, incomplete
radical 24 ⼗ · 5 strokes
自 zì
self; private, personal; from
radical 132 ⾃ · 6 strokes
动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 半自动.

WordPinyinMeaning
一半yī bànhalf
半岛 (半島)bàn dǎopeninsula
半年bàn niánhalf a year
半个 (半個)bàn gehalf of sth
半数 (半數)bàn shùhalf the number; half
上半年shàng bàn niánfirst half of the year
自己zì jǐoneself; (attributive) one's own
自由zì yóufreedom; liberty; free; unrestricted
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “semiautomatic”.

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.