Chinese symbol for “metallurgy”
冶金
yě jīn
metallurgy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for metallurgy is 冶金 (yě jīn), defined as: metallurgy.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “metallurgy”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冶金.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冶炼 (冶煉) | yě liàn | to smelt metal |
| 陶冶 | táo yě | lit. to fire pots and smelt metal; fig. to educate |
| 冶金学 (冶金學) | yě jīn xué | metallurgy |
| 妖冶 | yāo yě | pretty and flirtatious |
| 冶铸 (冶鑄) | yě zhù | to smelt and cast |
| 资金 (資金) | zī jīn | funds; capital |
| 金融 | jīn róng | banking; finance |
| 基金 | jī jīn | fund |
See also: Japanese symbol for “metallurgy”.
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.