Chinese symbol for “duality”
二元
èr yuán
duality; dual; bipolar; binary
The closest CC-CEDICT match for duality is 二元 (èr yuán), defined as: duality; dual; bipolar; binary.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “duality”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 二元.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 第二 | dì èr | second; number two |
| 第二次 | dì èr cì | the second time; the second occurrence |
| 第二天 | dì èr tiān | next day; the morrow |
| 二级 (二級) | èr jí | grade 2; second class |
| 十二 | shí èr | twelve; 12 |
| 二十 | èr shí | twenty; 20 |
| 美元 | měi yuán | American dollar; US dollar |
| 多元 | duō yuán | poly-; multi- |
See also: Japanese symbol for “duality”.
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.