Chinese symbol for “marble”
大理石
dà lǐ shí
marble
The closest CC-CEDICT match for marble is 大理石 (dà lǐ shí), defined as: marble.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “marble”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 弹珠 (彈珠) | dàn zhū | a marble (used in games) |
| 玻璃球 | bō li qiú | a marble (used in games) |
| 大理岩 | dà lǐ yán | marble |
| 花石 | huā shí | marble |
| 云石 (雲石) | yún shí | marble |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大理石.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 管理 | guǎn lǐ | to supervise; to manage |
| 处理 (處理) | chǔ lǐ | to handle; to deal with; to punish |
| 石油 | shí yóu | oil; petroleum |
See also: Japanese symbol for “marble”.
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.