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Chinese symbol for “carbide”

碳化物
tàn huà wù
carbide

The closest CC-CEDICT match for carbide is 碳化物 (tàn huà wù), defined as: carbide.

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Characters and stroke order

碳 tàn
carbon
radical 112 ⽯ · 14 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes
物 wù
thing, substance, matter; creature
radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 碳化物.

WordPinyinMeaning
二氧化碳èr yǎng huà tàncarbon dioxide CO2
一氧化碳yī yǎng huà tàncarbon monoxide CO
碳酸tàn suāncarbonic acid
碳化tàn huàto carbonize; dry distillation
碳酸钙 (碳酸鈣)tàn suān gàicalcium carbonate
低碳dī tàn(attributive) low-carbon; low-carb (diet)
文化wén huàculture; civilization
变化 (變化)biàn huà(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “carbide”.

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.