Chinese symbol for “translator”
译者
yì zhě
Traditional: 譯者
translator (of writing)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for translator is 译者 (yì zhě), defined as: translator (of writing).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “translator”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 翻译家 (翻譯家) | fān yì jiā | translator (of writings) |
| 翻译者 (翻譯者) | fān yì zhě | translator; interpreter |
| 翻译 (翻譯) | fān yì | to translate; to interpret |
| 译员 (譯員) | yì yuán | interpreter; translator (esp. oral) |
| 通译 (通譯) | tōng yì | (old) to translate; to interpret |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 译者.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 翻译 (翻譯) | fān yì | to translate; to interpret |
| 编译 (編譯) | biān yì | to translate and edit; translator-editor |
| 音译 (音譯) | yīn yì | transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters); characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or |
| 译文 (譯文) | yì wén | translated text |
| 译本 (譯本) | yì běn | translation (translated version of a text) |
| 破译 (破譯) | pò yì | to decipher; to decode |
| 记者 (記者) | jì zhě | reporter; journalist; 个 (gè) |
| 或者 | huò zhě | or; possibly; maybe; perhaps |
See also: Japanese symbol for “translator”.
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.