Chinese symbol for “junk”
杂物
zá wù
Traditional: 雜物
junk; items of no value; various bits and bobs
The closest CC-CEDICT match for junk is 杂物 (zá wù), defined as: junk; items of no value; various bits and bobs.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “junk”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破烂 (破爛) | pò làn | worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged; (coll.) rubbish; junk |
| 糟糠 | zāo kāng | chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor); (fig.) rubbish |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 杂物.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 复杂 (複雜) | fù zá | complicated; complex |
| 杂志 (雜誌) | zá zhì | magazine; measure word: 本 (běn), 份 (fèn), 期 (qī) |
| 杂交 (雜交) | zá jiāo | to hybridize; to crossbreed |
| 杂种 (雜種) | zá zhǒng | hybrid; mixed breed |
| 混杂 (混雜) | hùn zá | to mix; to mingle |
| 杂草 (雜草) | zá cǎo | weeds |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
| 动物 (動物) | dòng wù | animal |
See also: Japanese symbol for “junk”.
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.