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Chinese symbol for “crystallization”

结晶
jié jīng
Traditional: 結晶
to crystallize; crystallization; crystal; crystalline

The closest CC-CEDICT match for crystallization is 结晶 (jié jīng), defined as: to crystallize; crystallization; crystal; crystalline; (fig.) the fruit (of labor etc).

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Characters and stroke order

结 jié
knot, tie; to connect, to join
radical 120 ⽷ · 9 strokes
晶 jīng
crystal; bright, clear, radiant
radical 72 ⽇ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 结晶.

WordPinyinMeaning
结果 (結果)jiē guǒto bear fruit
结束 (結束)jié shùto end; to finish; to conclude
结构 (結構)jié gòustructure; composition
结合 (結合)jié héto combine; to link
结婚 (結婚)jié hūnto marry; to get married
水晶shuǐ jīngcrystal
晶体 (晶體)jīng tǐcrystal
液晶yè jīngliquid crystal

See also: Japanese symbol for “crystallization”.

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.