Chinese symbol for “trimmer”

裁纸机

cái zhǐ jī

Traditional: 裁紙機

trimmer; paper cutter

The closest CC-CEDICT match for trimmer is 裁纸机 (cái zhǐ jī), defined as: trimmer; paper cutter.

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Characters and stroke order

裁 cái

to trim, to reduce, to cut; judgment

radical 145 ⾐ · 12 strokes

纸 zhǐ

paper

radical 120 ⽷ · 7 strokes

机 jī

desk; machine; moment, opportunity

radical 75 ⽊ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 裁纸机.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
总裁 (總裁)	zǒng cái	chairman; director-general (of a company etc)
制裁	zhì cái	to punish; punishment
独裁 (獨裁)	dú cái	dictatorship
裁决 (裁決)	cái jué	ruling; adjudication
裁判	cái pàn	(law) to judge; to adjudicate; verdict; judgement; (sports) to referee
裁定	cái dìng	ruling
报纸 (報紙)	bào zhǐ	newspaper; newsprint
纸币 (紙幣)	zhǐ bì	bank notes; paper currency
机构 (機構)	jī gòu	mechanism; structure

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.