Chinese symbol for “clay”
黏土
nián tǔ
clay
The closest CC-CEDICT match for clay is 黏土 (nián tǔ), defined as: clay.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “clay”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 堇 | jǐn | clay; old variant of 仅 (jǐn) |
| 泥土 | ní tǔ | earth; soil; mud; clay |
| 胶泥 (膠泥) | jiāo ní | clay |
| 土 | tǔ | earth; dust |
| 垆 (壚) | lú | clay; shop |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 黏土.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黏膜 | nián mó | mucous membrane |
| 黏液 | nián yè | mucus |
| 黏性 | nián xìng | adhesiveness; stickiness; viscosity |
| 黏度 | nián dù | viscosity |
| 黏着 (黏著) | nián zhuó | to adhere; to stick together; to bond; to agglutinate |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
| 领土 (領土) | lǐng tǔ | territory |
| 本土 | běn tǔ | one's native country; native |
See also: Japanese symbol for “clay”.
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.