Chinese symbol for “squash”
压扁
yā biǎn
Traditional: 壓扁
to squash; to crush flat
The closest CC-CEDICT match for squash is 压扁 (yā biǎn), defined as: to squash; to crush flat.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “squash”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 壁球 | bì qiú | squash (sport) |
| 瓜 | guā | melon; gourd; squash; (slang) a piece of gossip |
| 挤垮 (擠垮) | jǐ kuǎ | to squash; to crush |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 压扁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 压力 (壓力) | yā lì | pressure |
| 镇压 (鎮壓) | zhèn yā | suppression; repression |
| 压迫 (壓迫) | yā pò | to oppress; to repress |
| 压缩 (壓縮) | yā suō | to compress; compression |
| 压制 (壓制) | yā zhì | to suppress; to inhibit |
| 高压 (高壓) | gāo yā | (physics) high pressure; (meteorology) high atmospheric pressure |
| 扁平 | biǎn píng | flat; planar |
| 扁担 (扁擔) | biǎn dan | carrying pole; shoulder pole |
See also: Japanese symbol for “squash”.
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.