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Chinese symbol for “ethylene”

乙烯
yǐ xī
ethylene

The closest CC-CEDICT match for ethylene is 乙烯 (yǐ xī), defined as: ethylene.

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Characters and stroke order

乙 yǐ
second; 2nd heavenly stem
radical 5 ⼄ · 1 strokes
烯 xī
alkene
radical 86 ⽕ · 11 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 乙烯.

WordPinyinMeaning
乙醇yǐ chúnethanol; ethyl alcohol
乙肝yǐ gānhepatitis B
乙方yǐ fāngparty B (in a contract) (cf. 甲方 (jiǎ fāng), party A)
乙醚yǐ míether; diethyl ether C2H5OC2H5
乙炔yǐ quēacetylene; ethyne C2H2
烯烃 (烯烴)xī tīng(chemistry) alkene
丙烯bǐng xīpropylene C3H6
聚丙烯jù bǐng xīpolypropylene

See also: Japanese symbol for “ethylene”.

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.