Chinese symbol for “degradation”
降解
jiàng jiě
(chemistry) degradation; to degrade
The closest CC-CEDICT match for degradation is 降解 (jiàng jiě), defined as: (chemistry) degradation; to degrade.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 降解.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 降低 | jiàng dī | to reduce; to lower; to bring down |
| 下降 | xià jiàng | to decline; to drop |
| 投降 | tóu xiáng | to surrender |
| 降落 | jiàng luò | to descend; to land |
| 降临 (降臨) | jiàng lín | to descend; to arrive |
| 降价 (降價) | jiàng jià | to cut the price; to drive down the price |
| 了解 | liǎo jiě | to understand; to know about; to learn about; to find out |
| 解决 (解決) | jiě jué | to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “degradation”.
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.