Chinese symbol for “glycerol”
甘油
gān yóu
glycerine; glycerol
The closest CC-CEDICT match for glycerol is 甘油 (gān yóu), defined as: glycerine; glycerol.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 甘油.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甘蔗 | gān zhe | sugar cane; 节 (jié) |
| 甘心 | gān xīn | to be willing to; to resign oneself to |
| 甘愿 (甘願) | gān yuàn | willingly |
| 心甘情愿 (心甘情願) | xīn gān qíng yuàn | delighted to (do sth, idiom); perfectly happy to do |
| 不甘 | bù gān | unreconciled to; not resigned to |
| 甘草 | gān cǎo | licorice root |
| 石油 | shí yóu | oil; petroleum |
| 加油 | jiā yóu | to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel; to accelerate; to step on the gas |
See also: Japanese symbol for “glycerol”.
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.