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Chinese symbol for “splice”

剪接
jiǎn jiē
to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); (genetics) to splice

The closest CC-CEDICT match for splice is 剪接 (jiǎn jiē), defined as: to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); (genetics) to splice.

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Characters and stroke order

剪 jiǎn
scissors; to cut, to divide, to separate
radical 18 ⼑ · 11 strokes
接 jiē
to connect, to join; to receive, to meet, to answer the phone
radical 64 ⼿ · 11 strokes

Other Chinese words for “splice”

WordPinyinMeaning
胶接 (膠接)jiāo jiēto splice; a glued joint
粘接zhān jiēto bond; to splice
緁jiéto join; to splice

Related words

Other words that share a character with 剪接.

WordPinyinMeaning
剪辑 (剪輯)jiǎn jíto edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); edited version
剪刀jiǎn dāoscissors; measure word: 把 (bǎ)
修剪xiū jiǎnto prune; to trim
剪纸 (剪紙)jiǎn zhǐpapercutting (Chinese folk art); to make paper cutouts
剪掉jiǎn diàoto cut off; to cut away
剪影jiǎn yǐngpaper-cut silhouette; outline
直接zhí jiēdirectly; direct
接受jiē shòuto accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce

See also: Japanese symbol for “splice”.

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.