Chinese symbol for “carbohydrate”
碳水化合物
tàn shuǐ huà hé wù
carbohydrate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for carbohydrate is 碳水化合物 (tàn shuǐ huà hé wù), defined as: carbohydrate.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “carbohydrate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 碳水 | tàn shuǐ | (coll.) carbohydrate; carbs (abbr. for 碳水化合物 (tàn shuǐ huà hé wù)) |
| 醣 | táng | carbohydrate; old variant of 糖 (táng) |
| 醣类 (醣類) | táng lèi | carbohydrate |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 碳水化合物.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 二氧化碳 | èr yǎng huà tàn | carbon dioxide CO2 |
| 一氧化碳 | yī yǎng huà tàn | carbon monoxide CO |
| 碳酸 | tàn suān | carbonic acid |
| 碳化 | tàn huà | to carbonize; dry distillation |
| 碳酸钙 (碳酸鈣) | tàn suān gài | calcium carbonate |
| 低碳 | dī tàn | (attributive) low-carbon; low-carb (diet) |
| 水平 | shuǐ píng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| 水果 | shuǐ guǒ | fruit |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 合作 | hé zuò | to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “carbohydrate”.
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.