Chinese symbol for “encyclopedic”
百科
bǎi kē
universal; encyclopedic; abbr. for 百科全书 (bǎi kē quán shū)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for encyclopedic is 百科 (bǎi kē), defined as: universal; encyclopedic; abbr. for 百科全书 (bǎi kē quán shū).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 百科.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 百万 (百萬) | bǎi wàn | million |
| 百姓 | bǎi xìng | common people |
| 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 |
| 科学家 (科學家) | kē xué jiā | scientist |
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.