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Chinese symbol for “subroutine”

子程序
zǐ chéng xù
subroutine

The closest CC-CEDICT match for subroutine is 子程序 (zǐ chéng xù), defined as: subroutine.

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Characters and stroke order

子 zǐ
son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
radical 39 ⼦ · 3 strokes
程 chéng
process, rules; journey, trip; agenda, schedule
radical 115 ⽲ · 12 strokes
序 xù
order, sequence, series; preface
radical 53 ⼴ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 子程序.

WordPinyinMeaning
孩子hái zichild
儿子 (兒子)ér zison
电子 (電子)diàn zǐelectronic; electron (particle physics)
妻子qī zǐwife and children
样子 (樣子)yàng ziappearance; manner
过程 (過程)guò chéngcourse of events; process
工程gōng chéngengineering; an engineering project
程度chéng dùdegree; level; extent
程序chéng xùprocedures; sequence

See also: Japanese symbol for “subroutine”.

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.