Chinese symbol for “calcification”
钙化
gài huà
Traditional: 鈣化
to calcify; calcification
The closest CC-CEDICT match for calcification is 钙化 (gài huà), defined as: to calcify; calcification.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 钙化.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钙质 (鈣質) | gài zhì | calcium |
| 碳酸钙 (碳酸鈣) | tàn suān gài | calcium carbonate |
| 氯化钙 (氯化鈣) | lǜ huà gài | calcium chloride |
| 氢氧化钙 (氫氧化鈣) | qīng yǎng huà gài | calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2; slaked lime |
| 硫酸钙 (硫酸鈣) | liú suān gài | calcium sulfate |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
| 现代化 (現代化) | xiàn dài huà | modernization; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “calcification”.
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.