Chinese symbol for “formaldehyde”
甲醛
jiǎ quán
formaldehyde (HCHO)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for formaldehyde is 甲醛 (jiǎ quán), defined as: formaldehyde (HCHO).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “formaldehyde”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 甲醛.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 装甲 (裝甲) | zhuāng jiǎ | vehicle armor |
| 指甲 | zhǐ jia | fingernail |
| 甲板 | jiǎ bǎn | deck (of a ship or boat) |
| 装甲车 (裝甲車) | zhuāng jiǎ chē | armored car; 辆 (liàng) |
| 甲状腺 (甲狀腺) | jiǎ zhuàng xiàn | (anatomy) thyroid gland |
| 铠甲 (鎧甲) | kǎi jiǎ | armor |
| 乙醛 | yǐ quán | acetaldehyde H3CCHO; ethanal |
| 酚醛 | fēn quán | phenolic aldehyde; phenolic resin (used to manufacture bakelite) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “formaldehyde”.
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.