Chinese symbol for “oxygen”
氧气
yǎng qì
Traditional: 氧氣
oxygen
The closest CC-CEDICT match for oxygen is 氧气 (yǎng qì), defined as: oxygen.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “oxygen”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 氧 | yǎng | oxygen (chemistry) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 氧气.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 天气 (天氣) | tiān qì | weather |
| 空气 (空氣) | kōng qì | air; atmosphere |
| 气候 (氣候) | qì hòu | (meteorology) climate; (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “oxygen”.
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.