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Chinese symbol for “threshold”

阈值
yù zhí
Traditional: 閾值
threshold

The closest CC-CEDICT match for threshold is 阈值 (yù zhí), defined as: threshold.

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Characters and stroke order

阈 yù
threshold; separated, confined
radical 169 ⾨ · 11 strokes
值 zhí
price, value, worth
radical 9 ⼈ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “threshold”

WordPinyinMeaning
阃 (閫)kǔnthreshold; inner appartments
阈 (閾)yùthreshold
阈限 (閾限)yù xiàn(psychology) threshold; liminal
门槛 (門檻)mén kǎndoorstep; sill
坎kǎnpit; threshold

Related words

Other words that share a character with 阈值.

WordPinyinMeaning
阈限 (閾限)yù xiàn(psychology) threshold; liminal
听阈 (聽閾)tīng yùaudibility threshold
价值 (價值)jià zhívalue; worth; (ethical, cultural etc) values
值得zhí deworth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
产值 (產值)chǎn zhívalue of output; output value
价值观 (價值觀)jià zhí guānvalue system; personal or cultural values
数值 (數值)shù zhínumerical value
贬值 (貶值)biǎn zhíto become devaluated; to devaluate

See also: Japanese symbol for “threshold”.

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.