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Chinese symbol for “nucleation”

成核
chéng hé
nucleation

The closest CC-CEDICT match for nucleation is 成核 (chéng hé), defined as: nucleation.

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Characters and stroke order

成 chéng
to accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish; to succeed
radical 62 ⼽ · 7 strokes
核 hé
core, kernel; nut, seed; atom
radical 75 ⽊ · 10 strokes

Other Chinese words for “nucleation”

WordPinyinMeaning
形核xíng hénucleation

Related words

Other words that share a character with 成核.

WordPinyinMeaning
成为 (成為)chéng wéito become; to turn into
完成wán chéngto complete; to accomplish
成功chéng gōngto succeed; success
成立chéng lìto establish; to set up
造成zào chéngto bring about; to create; to cause
成员 (成員)chéng yuánmember
核心hé xīncore; nucleus
考核kǎo héto examine; to check up on

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.