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Chinese symbol for “sms”

短讯
duǎn xùn
Traditional: 短訊
SMS; text message

The closest CC-CEDICT match for sms is 短讯 (duǎn xùn), defined as: SMS; text message.

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Characters and stroke order

短 duǎn
brief, short; deficient, lacking
radical 111 ⽮ · 12 strokes
讯 xùn
news, information; to question, to interrogate
radical 149 ⾔ · 5 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “sms”

WordPinyinMeaning
短信duǎn xìntext message; SMS
讯息 (訊息)xùn xīinformation; news; message; text message; SMS

Related words

Other words that share a character with 短讯.

WordPinyinMeaning
短期duǎn qīshort-term
短片duǎn piànshort film; video clip
短暂 (短暫)duǎn zànof short duration; brief; momentary
缩短 (縮短)suō duǎnto shorten; to reduce; to curtail
短缺duǎn quēshortage
短信duǎn xìntext message; SMS
资讯 (資訊)zī xùninformation
通讯 (通訊)tōng xùncommunications; news story

See also: Japanese symbol for “sms”.

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.