Chinese symbol for “permafrost”
冻土层
dòng tǔ céng
Traditional: 凍土層
permafrost; tundra; layer of frozen soil
The closest CC-CEDICT match for permafrost is 冻土层 (dòng tǔ céng), defined as: permafrost; tundra; layer of frozen soil.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “permafrost”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 永冻土 (永凍土) | yǒng dòng tǔ | permafrost |
| 永久冻土 (永久凍土) | yǒng jiǔ dòng tǔ | permafrost |
| 冻土 (凍土) | dòng tǔ | frozen earth; permafrost |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冻土层.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冻结 (凍結) | dòng jié | to freeze (water etc); (fig.) to freeze (assets, prices etc) |
| 冷冻 (冷凍) | lěng dòng | to freeze (food etc); (of weather) freezing |
| 解冻 (解凍) | jiě dòng | to melt; to thaw |
| 冰冻 (冰凍) | bīng dòng | to freeze |
| 冻死 (凍死) | dòng sǐ | to freeze to death; to die off in winter |
| 果冻 (果凍) | guǒ dòng | gelatin dessert |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
| 领土 (領土) | lǐng tǔ | territory |
| 基层 (基層) | jī céng | basic level; grassroots unit |
See also: Japanese symbol for “permafrost”.
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.