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Chinese symbol for “acidity”

酸性
suān xìng
acidity

The closest CC-CEDICT match for acidity is 酸性 (suān xìng), defined as: acidity.

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Characters and stroke order

酸 suān
tart, sour; spoiled; acid
radical 164 ⾣ · 14 strokes
性 xìng
sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective
radical 61 ⼼ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 酸性.

WordPinyinMeaning
氨基酸ān jī suānamino acid
硫酸liú suānsulfuric acid
酸奶suān nǎiyogurt
核酸hé suānnucleic acid; (coll.) nucleic acid test (abbr. for 核酸检测 (hé suān jiǎn cè))
硝酸xiāo suānnitric acid
女性nǚ xìngwoman; the female sex
男性nán xìngthe male sex; a male
性质 (性質)xìng zhìnature; characteristic

See also: Japanese symbol for “acidity”.

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.