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Chinese symbol for “impurities”

混杂物
hùn zá wù
Traditional: 混雜物
adulteration; impurities

The closest CC-CEDICT match for impurities is 混杂物 (hùn zá wù), defined as: adulteration; impurities.

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Characters and stroke order

混 hùn
muddy, confused; to mix, to blend; to mingle
radical 85 ⽔ · 11 strokes
杂 zá
mix, blend; various, miscellaneous
radical 75 ⽊ · 6 strokes
物 wù
thing, substance, matter; creature
radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 混杂物.

WordPinyinMeaning
混乱 (混亂)hùn luànconfused; chaotic; disorderly
混合hùn héto mix; to blend; hybrid; composite
混凝土hùn níng tǔconcrete (building material)
混淆hùn xiáoto obscure; to confuse
混蛋hún dànscoundrel; bastard
混沌hùn dùnprimal chaos (original state of the universe in Chinese mythology); (of a situation) confused; chaotic
复杂 (複雜)fù zácomplicated; complex
杂志 (雜誌)zá zhìmagazine; measure word: 本 (běn), 份 (fèn), 期 (qī)
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “impurities”.

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.