Chinese symbol for “wake”
航迹
háng jì
Traditional: 航跡
wake (of ship); flight path
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wake is 航迹 (háng jì), defined as: wake (of ship); flight path.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “wake”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 航迹.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 航空 | háng kōng | aviation |
| 航班 | háng bān | (scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing |
| 航线 (航線) | háng xiàn | air or shipping route |
| 航空公司 | háng kōng gōng sī | airline; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 导航 (導航) | dǎo háng | (lit. and fig.) to navigate |
| 航天 | háng tiān | space flight |
| 奇迹 (奇跡) | qí jì | variant of 奇迹 (qí jì) |
| 痕迹 (痕跡) | hén jì | vestige; mark |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wake”.
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.