Chinese symbol for “desalination”
淡化
dàn huà
to water down; to play down; to trivialize; to weaken
The closest CC-CEDICT match for desalination is 淡化 (dàn huà), defined as: to water down; to play down; to trivialize; to weaken; to become dull with time; to desalinate.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 淡化.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淡水 | dàn shuǐ | freshwater |
| 冷淡 | lěng dàn | cold; indifferent |
| 平淡 | píng dàn | flat; dull |
| 扯淡 | chě dàn | to talk nonsense |
| 轻描淡写 (輕描淡寫) | qīng miáo dàn xiě | (idiom) to treat sth as no big deal; to downplay |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
| 现代化 (現代化) | xiàn dài huà | modernization; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “desalination”.
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.