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Chinese symbol for “tailgate”

追尾
zhuī wěi
to tailgate; to hit the car in front as a result of tailgating

The closest CC-CEDICT match for tailgate is 追尾 (zhuī wěi), defined as: to tailgate; to hit the car in front as a result of tailgating.

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Characters and stroke order

追 zhuī
to pursue, to chase after; to expel
radical 162 ⾡ · 10 strokes
尾 wěi
tail; extremity, end; back, rear
radical 44 ⼫ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 追尾.

WordPinyinMeaning
追求zhuī qiúto pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after
追踪 (追蹤)zhuī zōngto track; to trace; to follow up; (HK, Tw) to follow (on social media)
追究zhuī jiūto investigate; to look into
追加zhuī jiāto add something extra; an additional increment
追逐zhuī zhúto chase; to pursue vigorously
追溯zhuī sùlit. to go upstream; to trace sth back to
尾巴wěi batail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
结尾 (結尾)jié wěiending; coda

See also: Japanese symbol for “tailgate”.

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.