Chinese symbol for “oxide”

氧化物

yǎng huà wù

oxide

The closest CC-CEDICT match for oxide is 氧化物 (yǎng huà wù), defined as: oxide.

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Characters and stroke order

氧 yǎng

oxygen

radical 84 ⽓ · 10 strokes

化 huà

to change, to convert, to reform; -ize

radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

物 wù

thing, substance, matter; creature

radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 氧化物.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
氧气 (氧氣)	yǎng qì	oxygen
氧化	yǎng huà	to oxidize
二氧化碳	èr yǎng huà tàn	carbon dioxide CO2
一氧化碳	yī yǎng huà tàn	carbon monoxide CO
缺氧	quē yǎng	lacking oxygen; anaerobic
二氧化硫	èr yǎng huà liú	sulfur dioxide SO2
文化	wén huà	culture; civilization
变化 (變化)	biàn huà	(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
人物	rén wù	person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “oxide”.

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.