Chinese symbol for “zeal”
积极性
jī jí xìng
Traditional: 積極性
zeal; initiative; enthusiasm; activity
The closest CC-CEDICT match for zeal is 积极性 (jī jí xìng), defined as: zeal; initiative; enthusiasm; activity.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “zeal”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 热忱 (熱忱) | rè chén | zeal; enthusiasm |
| 热度 (熱度) | rè dù | level of heat; (fig.) zeal |
| 劲头 (勁頭) | jìn tóu | enthusiasm; zeal |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 积极性.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 面积 (面積) | miàn jī | area (of a floor, piece of land etc); surface area |
| 积极 (積極) | jī jí | active; energetic |
| 积累 (積累) | jī lěi | to accumulate; accumulation |
| 积分 (積分) | jī fēn | integral (calculus); accumulated points (in sports, at school etc) |
| 累积 (累積) | lěi jī | to accumulate |
| 体积 (體積) | tǐ jī | volume (amount of space an object occupies) |
| 极端 (極端) | jí duān | extreme |
| 极为 (極為) | jí wéi | extremely; exceedingly |
| 女性 | nǚ xìng | woman; the female sex |
See also: Japanese symbol for “zeal”.
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.