Chinese symbol for “axillary”
腋生
yè shēng
axillary (botany); budding in the angle between branch and stem
The closest CC-CEDICT match for axillary is 腋生 (yè shēng), defined as: axillary (botany); budding in the angle between branch and stem.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 腋生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 腋毛 | yè máo | armpit hair |
| 腋下 | yè xià | underarm; armpit |
| 腋窝 (腋窩) | yè wō | armpit |
| 腋芽 | yè yá | axillary bud; bud growing from axil of plant |
| 腋臭 | yè chòu | body odor; bromhidrosis |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
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.