Chinese symbol for “explosive”
炸药
zhà yào
Traditional: 炸藥
explosive; blasting agent; dynamite
The closest CC-CEDICT match for explosive is 炸药 (zhà yào), defined as: explosive; blasting agent; dynamite.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “explosive”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爆炸性 | bào zhà xìng | explosive; fig. shocking |
| 爆炸物 | bào zhà wù | explosive (material) |
| 易爆 | yì bào | explosive |
| 爆发性 (爆發性) | bào fā xìng | explosive power; explosive |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 炸药.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爆炸 | bào zhà | explosion; to explode |
| 炸弹 (炸彈) | zhà dàn | bomb; measure word: 枚 (méi), 颗 (kē) |
| 轰炸 (轟炸) | hōng zhà | to bomb; to bombard; measure word: 波 (bō), 轮 (lún) |
| 轰炸机 (轟炸機) | hōng zhà jī | bomber (aircraft) |
| 炸毁 (炸燬) | zhà huǐ | to blow up; to destroy with explosives |
| 药物 (藥物) | yào wù | medicaments; pharmaceuticals |
| 药品 (藥品) | yào pǐn | medicaments; medicine |
| 医药 (醫藥) | yī yào | medical care and medicines; medicine (drug) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “explosive”.
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.