Chinese symbol for “almond”
杏仁
xìng rén
almond; apricot kernel
The closest CC-CEDICT match for almond is 杏仁 (xìng rén), defined as: almond; apricot kernel.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “almond”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杏 | xìng | apricot; (bound form) almond |
| 巴旦木 | bā dàn mù | almond (loanword) |
| 巴旦杏 | bā dàn xìng | almond (loanword) |
| 巴达木 (巴達木) | bā dá mù | almond (loanword) |
| 扁桃 | biǎn táo | almond tree; almond |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 杏仁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 银杏 (銀杏) | yín xìng | ginkgo |
| 杏子 | xìng zi | apricot |
| 红杏出墙 (紅杏出牆) | hóng xìng chū qiáng | lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom); fig. a wife having an illicit lover |
| 杏树 (杏樹) | xìng shù | apricot tree |
| 杏林 | xìng lín | forest of apricot trees; (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉 (Dǒng Fèng), 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant |
| 同仁 | tóng rén | (formal) colleague; fellow member (of an organization or profession) |
| 仁慈 | rén cí | benevolent; charitable |
| 一视同仁 (一視同仁) | yī shì tóng rén | to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people |
See also: Japanese symbol for “almond”.
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.