Chinese symbol for “particle”
粒子
lì zǐ
(elementary) particle; grain
The closest CC-CEDICT match for particle is 粒子 (lì zǐ), defined as: (elementary) particle; grain.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “particle”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 粒 | lì | grain; granule; pellet; particle; classifier for small round objects (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc) |
| 微粒 | wēi lì | speck; particle |
| 质点 (質點) | zhì diǎn | point mass; particle |
| 助词 (助詞) | zhù cí | (linguistics) auxiliary word; function word; particle |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 粒子.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 颗粒 (顆粒) | kē lì | kernel; granule |
| 微粒 | wēi lì | speck; particle |
| 米粒 | mǐ lì | grain of rice; granule |
| 线粒体 (線粒體) | xiàn lì tǐ | mitochondrion |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
| 儿子 (兒子) | ér zi | son |
| 电子 (電子) | diàn zǐ | electronic; electron (particle physics) |
| 妻子 | qī zǐ | wife and children |
See also: Japanese symbol for “particle”.
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.