Chinese symbol for “yaw”
偏航
piān háng
(of a ship or aircraft) to deviate from its course; (aviation) to yaw
The closest CC-CEDICT match for yaw is 偏航 (piān háng), defined as: (of a ship or aircraft) to deviate from its course; (aviation) to yaw.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 偏航.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 偏见 (偏見) | piān jiàn | prejudice; bias |
| 偏偏 | piān piān | (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite |
| 偏向 | piān xiàng | partial towards sth; to prefer |
| 偏离 (偏離) | piān lí | to deviate; to diverge |
| 偏好 | piān hào | to have a special liking (for sth) |
| 偏差 | piān chā | deviation; bias |
| 航空 | háng kōng | aviation |
| 航班 | háng bān | (scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing |
See also: Japanese symbol for “yaw”.
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.