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Chinese symbol for “mineral”

矿物
kuàng wù
Traditional: 礦物
mineral

The closest CC-CEDICT match for mineral is 矿物 (kuàng wù), defined as: mineral.

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Characters and stroke order

矿 kuàng
mine; mineral, ore
radical 112 ⽯ · 8 strokes
物 wù
thing, substance, matter; creature
radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 矿物.

WordPinyinMeaning
煤矿 (煤礦)méi kuàngcoal mine; coal seam
矿产 (礦產)kuàng chǎnminerals
矿业 (礦業)kuàng yèmining industry
采矿 (採礦)cǎi kuàngmining
矿山 (礦山)kuàng shānmine
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)
动物 (動物)dòng wùanimal
物质 (物質)wù zhìmatter; substance

See also: Japanese symbol for “mineral”.

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.