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Chinese symbol for “typesetting”

排版
pái bǎn
typesetting

The closest CC-CEDICT match for typesetting is 排版 (pái bǎn), defined as: typesetting.

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Characters and stroke order

排 pái
row, rank, file; to eliminate, to remove
radical 64 ⼿ · 11 strokes
版 bǎn
printing block, edition; register; volume, version
radical 91 ⽚ · 8 strokes

Other Chinese words for “typesetting”

WordPinyinMeaning
活版印刷huó bǎn yìn shuāprinting with movable type; typesetting

Related words

Other words that share a character with 排版.

WordPinyinMeaning
安排ān páito arrange; to plan
排名pái míngto rank (1st, 2nd etc); ranking
排除pái chúto eliminate; to remove
排列pái lièto arrange in order; (math.) permutation
排放pái fàngto arrange in order; to emit; to discharge (exhaust gas, waste water etc)
排队 (排隊)pái duìto line up
版本bǎn běnversion; edition
出版chū bǎnto publish

See also: Japanese symbol for “typesetting”.

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.