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Chinese symbol for “follicle”

滤泡
lǜ pào
Traditional: 濾泡
follicle

The closest CC-CEDICT match for follicle is 滤泡 (lǜ pào), defined as: follicle.

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Characters and stroke order

滤 lǜ
to filter, to strain
radical 85 ⽔ · 13 strokes
泡 pào
bubble, blister; swollen, puffed up
radical 85 ⽔ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “follicle”

WordPinyinMeaning
蓇葖gū tū(botany) follicle; flower bud

Related words

Other words that share a character with 滤泡.

WordPinyinMeaning
过滤 (過濾)guò lǜto filter
过滤器 (過濾器)guò lǜ qìfiltering apparatus; (machine) filter
滤波器 (濾波器)lǜ bō qìsignal filter
滤波 (濾波)lǜ bōto filter electric signals
滤镜 (濾鏡)lǜ jìng(photography) filter
滤芯 (濾芯)lǜ xīnfilter cartridge; filter
泡沫pào mòfoam; (soap) bubble
泡泡pào paobubbles

See also: Japanese symbol for “follicle”.

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.