Chinese symbol for “chemistry”
化学
huà xué
Traditional: 化學
chemistry; chemical
The closest CC-CEDICT match for chemistry is 化学 (huà xué), defined as: chemistry; chemical.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 化学.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 强化 (強化) | qiáng huà | to strengthen; to intensify |
| 转化 (轉化) | zhuǎn huà | to change; to turn; to convert; (genetics) to transform |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 学校 (學校) | xué xiào | school; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “chemistry”.
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.