Chinese symbol for “hydrocarbon”
烃
tīng
Traditional: 烴
hydrocarbon
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hydrocarbon is 烃 (tīng), defined as: hydrocarbon.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “hydrocarbon”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 碳氢化合物 (碳氫化合物) | tàn qīng huà hé wù | hydrocarbon |
| 碳化氢 (碳化氫) | tàn huà qīng | hydrocarbon; same as 烃 (tīng) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 烃.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烯烃 (烯烴) | xī tīng | (chemistry) alkene |
| 芳烃 (芳烴) | fāng tīng | aromatic hydrocarbon |
| 烷烃 (烷烴) | wán tīng | alkane |
| 卤代烃 (鹵代烴) | lǔ dài tīng | haloalkane (obtained from hydrocarbon by substituting halogen for hydrogen, e.g. chlorobenzene or the CFCs) |
| 芳香烃 (芳香烴) | fāng xiāng tīng | aromatic hydrocarbon (i.e. involving benzene ring) |
| 环烷烃 (環烷烴) | huán wán tīng | cycloalkane |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hydrocarbon”.
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.