Chinese symbol for “sum”
总和
zǒng hé
Traditional: 總和
sum
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sum is 总和 (zǒng hé), defined as: sum.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “sum”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 项 (項) | xiàng | back of neck; item |
| 总数 (總數) | zǒng shù | total; sum |
| 和 | hé | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum |
| 和数 (和數) | hé shù | sum (math.) |
| 加和 | jiā hé | to calculate the total; sum; total |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 总和.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 总统 (總統) | zǒng tǒng | president (of a country) |
| 总是 (總是) | zǒng shì | always |
| 总理 (總理) | zǒng lǐ | premier; prime minister |
| 总结 (總結) | zǒng jié | to sum up; to conclude |
| 总部 (總部) | zǒng bù | headquarters |
| 总之 (總之) | zǒng zhī | in a word; in short |
| 和平 | hé píng | peace; peaceful |
| 共和国 (共和國) | gòng hé guó | republic |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sum”.
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.