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Chinese symbol for “compost”

堆肥
duī féi
compost; to compost

The closest CC-CEDICT match for compost is 堆肥 (duī féi), defined as: compost; to compost.

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Characters and stroke order

堆 duī
crowd, heap, pile, mass; to pile up; measure word for things in piles
radical 32 ⼟ · 11 strokes
肥 féi
fat, plump, obese; fertile
radical 130 ⾁ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 堆肥.

WordPinyinMeaning
一堆yī duīpile; heap; a lot of; a bunch of
堆积 (堆積)duī jīto pile up; to heap
反应堆 (反應堆)fǎn yìng duīreactor
垃圾堆lā jī duīgarbage heap
核反应堆 (核反應堆)hé fǎn yìng duīnuclear reactor
火堆huǒ duībonfire; to open fire
减肥 (減肥)jiǎn féito lose weight
肥料féi liàofertilizer

See also: Japanese symbol for “compost”.

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.