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Chinese symbol for “chloride”

氯化物
lǜ huà wù
chloride

The closest CC-CEDICT match for chloride is 氯化物 (lǜ huà wù), defined as: chloride.

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Characters and stroke order

氯 lǜ
chlorine
radical 84 ⽓ · 12 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

Other Chinese words for “chloride”

WordPinyinMeaning
盐酸盐 (鹽酸鹽)yán suān yánchloride; hydrochloride (chemistry)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 氯化物.

WordPinyinMeaning
氯气 (氯氣)lǜ qìchlorine
氯仿lǜ fǎngchloroform (trichloromethane CHCl3)
聚氯乙烯jù lǜ yǐ xīpolyvinyl chloride (PVC)
氯化钠 (氯化鈉)lǜ huà nàsodium chloride NaCl; common salt
氯化氢 (氯化氫)lǜ huà qīnghydrogen chloride HCl
文化wén huàculture; civilization
变化 (變化)biàn huà(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
现代化 (現代化)xiàn dài huàmodernization; 个 (gè)
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “chloride”.

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.