Chinese symbol for “butane”
丁烷
dīng wán
butane
The closest CC-CEDICT match for butane is 丁烷 (dīng wán), defined as: butane.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 丁烷.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉丁 | lā dīng | Latin; (in former times) to press-gang |
| 布丁 | bù dīng | pudding (loanword) |
| 补丁 (補丁) | bǔ ding | patch (for mending clothes, tires etc); (software) patch |
| 丁丁 | dīng dīng | (neologism) (slang) penis (丁丁 resembles "JJ", which is short for 鸡鸡 (jī jī)) |
| 园丁 (園丁) | yuán dīng | gardener |
| 甲烷 | jiǎ wán | methane CH4 |
| 丙烷 | bǐng wán | propane |
| 烷基 | wán jī | alkyl |
See also: Japanese symbol for “butane”.
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.