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Chinese symbol for “cyanobacteria”

蓝绿藻
lán lǜ zǎo
Traditional: 藍綠藻
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for cyanobacteria is 蓝绿藻 (lán lǜ zǎo), defined as: Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae).

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Characters and stroke order

蓝 lán
blue; indigo plant; surname
radical 140 ⾋ · 14 strokes
绿 lǜ
green; chlorine
radical 120 ⽷ · 11 strokes
藻 zǎo
splendid, magnificent; algae
radical 140 ⾋ · 19 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “cyanobacteria”

WordPinyinMeaning
蓝细菌 (藍細菌)lán xì jūnCyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
蓝菌 (藍菌)lán jūnCyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
氰基细菌 (氰基細菌)qíng jī xì jūncyanobacteria
蓝绿菌 (藍綠菌)lán lǜ jūnCyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
蓝菌门 (藍菌門)lán jūn ménCyanobacteria (phylum of blue-green algae)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 蓝绿藻.

WordPinyinMeaning
蓝色 (藍色)lán sèblue (color)
蓝天 (藍天)lán tiānblue sky
蓝图 (藍圖)lán túblueprint
蓝宝石 (藍寶石)lán bǎo shísapphire
蓝莓 (藍莓)lán méiblueberry
蓝领 (藍領)lán lǐngblue-collar; blue-collar worker
绿色 (綠色)lǜ sègreen
绿化 (綠化)lǜ huàto make green with plants; to reforest
藻类 (藻類)zǎo lèialgae

See also: Japanese symbol for “cyanobacteria”.

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.