Chinese symbol for “encyclopedia”
百科全书
bǎi kē quán shū
Traditional: 百科全書
encyclopedia; measure word: 本 (běn), 集 (jí)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for encyclopedia is 百科全书 (bǎi kē quán shū), defined as: encyclopedia; measure word: 本 (běn), 集 (jí).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “encyclopedia”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 事典 | shì diǎn | encyclopedia |
| 辞书 (辭書) | cí shū | dictionary; encyclopedia |
| 百科事典 | bǎi kē shì diǎn | encyclopedia |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 百科全书.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 百万 (百萬) | bǎi wàn | million |
| 百姓 | bǎi xìng | common people |
| 百科 | bǎi kē | universal; encyclopedic |
| 百年 | bǎi nián | hundred years; century; (fig.) a whole lifetime; a person's whole life |
| 老百姓 | lǎo bǎi xìng | ordinary people; the "person in the street" |
| 百分点 (百分點) | bǎi fēn diǎn | percentage point |
| 科技 | kē jì | science and technology |
| 科学 (科學) | kē xué | science; scientific knowledge |
| 全国 (全國) | quán guó | whole nation; nationwide |
| 书记 (書記) | shū ji | secretary (head of a Communist Party or Communist Youth League organization); clerk; scribe |
See also: Japanese symbol for “encyclopedia”.
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.