Chinese symbol for “dropper”
滴管
dī guǎn
intravenous drip tube; dropper; eyedropper; (coll.) pipette; (coll.) burette
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dropper is 滴管 (dī guǎn), defined as: intravenous drip tube; dropper; eyedropper; (coll.) pipette; (coll.) burette; drip-irrigation pipe (abbr. for 滴灌管 (dī guàn guǎn)).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 滴管.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 点滴 (點滴) | diǎn dī | a drip; a little bit |
| 水滴 | shuǐ dī | drop of water |
| 一点一滴 (一點一滴) | yī diǎn yī dī | bit by bit; every little bit |
| 滴水 | dī shuǐ | water drop; dripping water |
| 滴答 | dī dā | (onom.) pattering sound; drip drip (of water) |
| 雨滴 | yǔ dī | raindrop |
| 管理 | guǎn lǐ | to supervise; to manage |
| 尽管 (儘管) | jǐn guǎn | despite; although |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dropper”.
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.