Chinese symbol for “botany”

植物学

zhí wù xué

Traditional: 植物學

botany

The closest CC-CEDICT match for botany is 植物学 (zhí wù xué), defined as: botany.

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Characters and stroke order

植 zhí

tree, plant; to grow

radical 75 ⽊ · 12 strokes

物 wù

thing, substance, matter; creature

radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

学 xué

learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology

radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

學 xué

Related words

Other words that share a character with 植物学.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
植物	zhí wù	plant; vegetation
种植 (種植)	zhòng zhí	to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
移植	yí zhí	to transplant
植入	zhí rù	to implant
植被	zhí bèi	vegetation
动植物 (動植物)	dòng zhí wù	plants and animals; flora and fauna
人物	rén wù	person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)
动物 (動物)	dòng wù	animal
学生 (學生)	xué sheng	student; schoolchild

See also: Japanese symbol for “botany”.

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.