Chinese symbol for “grating”
光栅
guāng shān
Traditional: 光柵
(optics) grating (esp. diffraction grating); (computing) raster
The closest CC-CEDICT match for grating is 光栅 (guāng shān), defined as: (optics) grating (esp. diffraction grating); (computing) raster.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “grating”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 光栅.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阳光 (陽光) | yáng guāng | sunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic |
| 曝光 | bào guāng | to expose (photography); (fig.) to expose (a scandal) |
| 时光 (時光) | shí guāng | time (esp. as sth that passes) |
| 光明 | guāng míng | light; radiance |
| 目光 | mù guāng | gaze; (fig.) attention; expression in one's eyes; look |
| 观光 (觀光) | guān guāng | to tour; sightseeing |
| 栅栏 (柵欄) | zhà lán | fence |
| 栅极 (柵極) | shān jí | grid (in vacuum tubes); gate (terminal of a field-effect transistor) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “grating”.
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.