Chinese symbol for “coating”
涂层
tú céng
Traditional: 塗層
protective layer; coating
The closest CC-CEDICT match for coating is 涂层 (tú céng), defined as: protective layer; coating.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “coating”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 涂层.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 糊涂 (糊塗) | hú tu | muddled; silly |
| 涂鸦 (塗鴉) | tú yā | graffiti; scrawl |
| 涂料 (塗料) | tú liào | paint |
| 涂抹 (塗抹) | tú mǒ | to paint; to smear |
| 一塌糊涂 (一塌糊塗) | yī tā hú tu | muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition; complete shambles |
| 基层 (基層) | jī céng | basic level; grassroots unit |
| 层面 (層面) | céng miàn | aspect; facet; level (political, psychological, spiritual etc) |
| 高层 (高層) | gāo céng | high-rise; high level; high class |
See also: Japanese symbol for “coating”.
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.