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Chinese symbol for “bionic”

仿生
fǎng shēng
to design an artificial system, taking inspiration from a living organism; bionic; biomimetic

The closest CC-CEDICT match for bionic is 仿生 (fǎng shēng), defined as: to design an artificial system, taking inspiration from a living organism; bionic; biomimetic.

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Characters and stroke order

仿 fǎng
to imitate, to copy; fake; as if
radical 9 ⼈ · 6 strokes
生 shēng
life, lifetime; birth; growth
radical 100 ⽣ · 5 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 仿生.

WordPinyinMeaning
模仿mó fǎngto imitate; to copy
仿佛fǎng fúto seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar
仿真fǎng zhēnto emulate; to simulate
仿效 (仿傚)fǎng xiàoto copy; to imitate
效仿 (傚仿)xiào fǎngsee 仿效 (fǎng xiào)
发生 (發生)fā shēngto happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")
生活shēng huóto live; life
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild

See also: Japanese symbol for “bionic”.

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.