Chinese symbol for “consumables”
耗材
hào cái
consumables; to consume raw materials
The closest CC-CEDICT match for consumables is 耗材 (hào cái), defined as: consumables; to consume raw materials.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “consumables”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 耗材.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 消耗 | xiāo hào | to consume; to use up; to deplete; to expend |
| 耗费 (耗費) | hào fèi | to waste; to spend |
| 耗尽 (耗盡) | hào jìn | to exhaust; to use up |
| 耗资 (耗資) | hào zī | to spend; expenditure |
| 损耗 (損耗) | sǔn hào | loss; depletion; wastage; wear and tear; to incur loss; to waste; to consume (energy etc) |
| 耗时 (耗時) | hào shí | time-consuming; to take a period of (x amount of time) |
| 材料 | cái liào | (raw) material; data |
| 题材 (題材) | tí cái | subject matter |
See also: Japanese symbol for “consumables”.
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.