西格玛

西格瑪
xīgémǎ
noun #34,201

Meanings

  1. 1 sigma (Greek letter Σ, σ)
  2. 2 (statistics) standard deviation symbol

Examples

Xīlà zìmǔ xīgémǎ cháng yòng lái biǎoshì qiú hé.
The Greek letter sigma is often used to denote summation.
Zhè jiā gōngchǎng cǎiyòng liù xīgémǎ guǎnlǐ fāngfǎ.
This factory uses Six Sigma management methodology.

Tips

culture
西格玛 (liù xīgémǎ, Six Sigma) is the most familiar context in Chinese business writing — the Motorola/GE quality-management methodology is a fixture in MBA curricula. Mathematical/statistical 西格玛 also appears in textbooks; in pop-culture business-speak, the English-loan slang 'sigma' (alpha-male meme) hasn't displaced it as a translation.
memory
西 (west) + (frame/style) + (agate, used phonetically) — 'sig-ge-ma' approximates 'sigma'. The same closes 罗马 (Rome) and 巴拿马 (Panama).

Stroke Order

西