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Chinese symbol for “cardboard”

纸板
zhǐ bǎn
Traditional: 紙板
cardboard

The closest CC-CEDICT match for cardboard is 纸板 (zhǐ bǎn), defined as: cardboard.

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Characters and stroke order

纸 zhǐ
paper
radical 120 ⽷ · 7 strokes
板 bǎn
board, plank; plate, slab; unnatural, stiff
radical 75 ⽊ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “cardboard”

WordPinyinMeaning
卡纸 (卡紙)kǎ zhǐcardboard; card stock
硬纸 (硬紙)yìng zhǐcardboard; stiff paper

Related words

Other words that share a character with 纸板.

WordPinyinMeaning
报纸 (報紙)bào zhǐnewspaper; newsprint
纸币 (紙幣)zhǐ bìbank notes; paper currency
图纸 (圖紙)tú zhǐblueprint; drawing
纸张 (紙張)zhǐ zhāngpaper
纸条 (紙條)zhǐ tiáoslip of paper
造纸 (造紙)zào zhǐpapermaking
老板lǎo bǎnvariant of 老板 (lǎo bǎn)
地板dì bǎnfloor

See also: Japanese symbol for “cardboard”.

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.