Chinese symbol for “amphibian”
两栖动物
liǎng qī dòng wù
Traditional: 兩棲動物
amphibian; amphibious animals
The closest CC-CEDICT match for amphibian is 两栖动物 (liǎng qī dòng wù), defined as: amphibian; amphibious animals.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “amphibian”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 两栖动物.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 两岸 (兩岸) | liǎng àn | bilateral; both shores |
| 两者 (兩者) | liǎng zhě | both of them; the two of them |
| 两侧 (兩側) | liǎng cè | two sides; both sides |
| 两边 (兩邊) | liǎng biān | either side; both sides |
| 两面 (兩面) | liǎng miàn | both sides |
| 两倍 (兩倍) | liǎng bèi | twice as much; double the amount |
| 栖息 (棲息) | qī xī | (of a bird) to perch; (of creatures in general) to inhabit; to dwell |
| 栖息地 (棲息地) | qī xī dì | habitat |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “amphibian”.
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.