Chinese symbol for “thankful”
感激
gǎn jī
to be grateful; to appreciate; thankful
The closest CC-CEDICT match for thankful is 感激 (gǎn jī), defined as: to be grateful; to appreciate; thankful.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 感激.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 感觉 (感覺) | gǎn jué | feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive |
| 感到 | gǎn dào | to feel; to sense; to perceive |
| 感谢 (感謝) | gǎn xiè | to thank; to be grateful |
| 感受 | gǎn shòu | to sense; perception |
| 感情 | gǎn qíng | emotion; sentiment; affection; feelings between two persons |
| 感染 | gǎn rǎn | to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence |
| 刺激 | cì jī | to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant |
| 激烈 | jī liè | (of competition or fighting) intense; fierce |
See also: Japanese symbol for “thankful”.
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.