Chinese symbol for “chlorine”
氯
lǜ
chlorine (chemistry)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for chlorine is 氯 (lǜ), defined as: chlorine (chemistry).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “chlorine”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 氯.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 氯气 (氯氣) | lǜ qì | chlorine |
| 氯仿 | lǜ fǎng | chloroform (trichloromethane CHCl3) |
| 聚氯乙烯 | jù lǜ yǐ xī | polyvinyl chloride (PVC) |
| 氯化钠 (氯化鈉) | lǜ huà nà | sodium chloride NaCl; common salt |
| 氯化物 | lǜ huà wù | chloride |
| 氯化氢 (氯化氫) | lǜ huà qīng | hydrogen chloride HCl |
See also: Japanese symbol for “chlorine”.
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.