Chinese symbol for “contaminate”
污染
wū rǎn
(lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for contaminate is 污染 (wū rǎn), defined as: (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “contaminate”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 污染.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贪污 (貪污) | tān wū | to be corrupt; corruption |
| 污水 | wū shuǐ | sewage |
| 污染物 | wū rǎn wù | pollutant |
| 环境污染 (環境污染) | huán jìng wū rǎn | environmental pollution |
| 污点 (污點) | wū diǎn | stain; taint |
| 感染 | gǎn rǎn | to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence |
| 传染 (傳染) | chuán rǎn | to infect; contagious |
| 渲染 | xuàn rǎn | rendering (computing); to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “contaminate”.
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.