Chinese symbol for “kilowatt”
千瓦
qiān wǎ
kilowatt
The closest CC-CEDICT match for kilowatt is 千瓦 (qiān wǎ), defined as: kilowatt.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 千瓦.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 千万 (千萬) | qiān wàn | ten million; countless |
| 平方千米 | píng fāng qiān mǐ | square kilometer |
| 千年 | qiān nián | millennium |
| 千米 | qiān mǐ | kilometer |
| 千里 | qiān lǐ | a thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) |
| 成千上万 (成千上萬) | chéng qiān shàng wàn | (lit.) by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); (fig.) untold numbers; innumerable; countless |
| 瓦解 | wǎ jiě | to collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble; to disrupt; to break up |
| 瓦斯 | wǎ sī | gas (loanword) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “kilowatt”.
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.