Chinese symbol for “conic”

二次曲线

èr cì qū xiàn

Traditional: 二次曲線

quadratic curve (geometry); conic

The closest CC-CEDICT match for conic is 二次曲线 (èr cì qū xiàn), defined as: quadratic curve (geometry); conic.

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Characters and stroke order

二 èr

two; twice

radical 7 ⼆ · 2 strokes

次 cì

order, sequence; second, next; one after the other

radical 76 ⽋ · 6 strokes

曲 qū

crooked, bent; wrong, false

radical 73 ⽈ · 6 strokes

线 xiàn

line, thread, wire; clue, trail

radical 120 ⽷ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

線 xiàn

Related words

Other words that share a character with 二次曲线.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
第二	dì èr	second; number two
第二次	dì èr cì	the second time; the second occurrence
第二天	dì èr tiān	next day; the morrow
二级 (二級)	èr jí	grade 2; second class
十二	shí èr	twelve; 12
二十	èr shí	twenty; 20
一次	yī cì	first; first time
第一次	dì yī cì	the first time; for the first time
歌曲	gē qǔ	song
路线 (路線)	lù xiàn	itinerary; route

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.