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Chinese symbol for “cyanide”

氰化物
qíng huà wù
cyanide

The closest CC-CEDICT match for cyanide is 氰化物 (qíng huà wù), defined as: cyanide.

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Characters and stroke order

氰 qíng
cyanogen; ethane dinitrile
radical 84 ⽓ · 12 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes
物 wù
thing, substance, matter; creature
radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

Other Chinese words for “cyanide”

WordPinyinMeaning
山奈shān nài(loanword) cyanide; variant of 山柰 (shān nài)
山埃shān āicyanide (loanword); same as 氰化

Related words

Other words that share a character with 氰化物.

WordPinyinMeaning
三聚氰胺sān jù qíng ànmelamine C3H6N6
氰化钾 (氰化鉀)qíng huà jiǎpotassium cyanide KCN
氰酸qíng suāncyanic acid HCN
氰化钠 (氰化鈉)qíng huà nàsodium cyanide NaCN
硫氰酸liú qíng suānthiocyanic acid
文化wén huàculture; civilization
变化 (變化)biàn huà(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
现代化 (現代化)xiàn dài huàmodernization; 个 (gè)
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “cyanide”.

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.