Chinese symbol for “upfront”
直球
zhí qiú
(baseball) fastball; (fig.) (coll.) direct; frank; upfront; blunt
The closest CC-CEDICT match for upfront is 直球 (zhí qiú), defined as: (baseball) fastball; (fig.) (coll.) direct; frank; upfront; blunt.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 直球.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through |
| 直接 | zhí jiē | directly; direct |
| 直到 | zhí dào | until |
| 直播 | zhí bō | (TV, radio) to broadcast live; live broadcast |
| 简直 (簡直) | jiǎn zhí | simply; really |
| 直升机 (直升機) | zhí shēng jī | helicopter; measure word: 架 (jià) |
| 全球 | quán qiú | the whole world; worldwide; global |
| 足球 | zú qiú | soccer; football; a soccer ball; a football |
See also: Japanese symbol for “upfront”.
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.