Chinese symbol for “shut”
关闭
guān bì
Traditional: 關閉
to close; to shut (a window etc); (of a shop, school etc) to shut down
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shut is 关闭 (guān bì), defined as: to close; to shut (a window etc); (of a shop, school etc) to shut down.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “shut”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闭起 (閉起) | bì qǐ | to shut |
| 闭 (閉) | bì | to close; to stop up |
| 关 (關) | guān | mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 关闭.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 关系 (關係) | guān xi | relation; relationship; connection; to concern; to involve; to affect |
| 关于 (關於) | guān yú | pertaining to; concerning |
| 有关 (有關) | yǒu guān | to have sth to do with; to relate to |
| 相关 (相關) | xiāng guān | related; relevant |
| 机关 (機關) | jī guān | mechanism; gear; machine-operated |
| 封闭 (封閉) | fēng bì | to close; to seal off; to close down (an illegal venue) |
| 倒闭 (倒閉) | dǎo bì | to go bankrupt; to close down |
| 闭幕 (閉幕) | bì mù | the curtain falls; lower the curtain |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shut”.
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.