Chinese symbol for “disinfect”
消毒
xiāo dú
to disinfect; to sterilize
The closest CC-CEDICT match for disinfect is 消毒 (xiāo dú), defined as: to disinfect; to sterilize.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “disinfect”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杀毒 (殺毒) | shā dú | to disinfect; (computing) to destroy a computer virus |
| 杀菌 (殺菌) | shā jūn | to kill germs; to disinfect |
| 消杀 (消殺) | xiāo shā | to sterilize; to disinfect; to kill; to exterminate (insects, pathogens etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 消毒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 消息 | xiāo xi | (piece of) news; information; message |
| 取消 | qǔ xiāo | to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind |
| 消费 (消費) | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 消失 | xiāo shī | to disappear; to fade away |
| 消费者 (消費者) | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 病毒 | bìng dú | virus |
| 毒品 | dú pǐn | drugs; narcotics |
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.