Chinese symbol for “ecology”
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ecology is 生态 (shēng tài), defined as: ecology (the study of interactions between organisms and their environment); ecological state (the condition or health of a natural environment); (fig.) ecosystem (a complex network, e.g. in tech, business or media, as in 数字生态 (shù zì shēng tài) "digital ecosystem").
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “ecology”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 生态.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 生产 (生產) | shēng chǎn | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child |
| 产生 (產生) | chǎn shēng | to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate |
| 先生 | xiān sheng | teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) |
| 状态 (狀態) | zhuàng tài | condition; state; state of affairs |
| 态度 (態度) | tài du | manner; bearing |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ecology”.
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.