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Chinese symbol for “halide”

卤化物
lǔ huà wù
Traditional: 鹵化物
halide (i.e. fluoride, chloride, bromide etc)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for halide is 卤化物 (lǔ huà wù), defined as: halide (i.e. fluoride, chloride, bromide etc).

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Characters and stroke order

卤 lǔ
salt
radical 25 ⼘ · 7 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes
物 wù
thing, substance, matter; creature
radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 卤化物.

WordPinyinMeaning
卤素 (鹵素)lǔ sùhalogen (chemistry)
卤化 (鹵化)lǔ huàto halogenate; halogenation (chemistry)
卤代烃 (鹵代烴)lǔ dài tīnghaloalkane (obtained from hydrocarbon by substituting halogen for hydrogen, e.g. chlorobenzene or the CFCs)
卤水 (鹵水)lǔ shuǐbrine; bittern
卤味 (滷味)lǔ wèifood braised in soy sauce and spices
文化wén huàculture; civilization
变化 (變化)biàn huà(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
现代化 (現代化)xiàn dài huàmodernization; 个 (gè)
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “halide”.

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.