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Chinese symbol for “superposition”

重叠
chóng dié
Traditional: 重疊
to overlap; to superimpose; to telescope; to run together

The closest CC-CEDICT match for superposition is 重叠 (chóng dié), defined as: to overlap; to superimpose; to telescope; to run together; to duplicate; one over another.

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Characters and stroke order

重 chóng
heavy, weighty; to double, to repeat
radical 166 ⾥ · 9 strokes
叠 dié
pile; layer; to fold up; to repeat, to duplicate
radical 29 ⼜ · 13 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 重叠.

WordPinyinMeaning
重要zhòng yàoimportant; significant; major
严重 (嚴重)yán zhònggrave; serious; severe; critical
重点 (重點)chóng diǎnto recount (e.g. results of election); to re-evaluate
重新chóng xīnagain; once more; re-
重大zhòng dàgreat; important
折叠 (折疊)zhé diéto fold; collapsible; folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
叠加 (疊加)dié jiāto superimpose; to layer
堆叠 (堆疊)duī diéto pile up; to put layer upon layer

See also: Japanese symbol for “superposition”.

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.