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Chinese symbol for “ph”

酸碱值
suān jiǎn zhí
Traditional: 酸鹼值
pH (chemistry)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for ph is 酸碱值 (suān jiǎn zhí), defined as: pH (chemistry).

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Characters and stroke order

酸 suān
tart, sour; spoiled; acid
radical 164 ⾣ · 14 strokes
碱 jiǎn
alkaline, alkali, lye, salt
radical 112 ⽯ · 14 strokes
值 zhí
price, value, worth
radical 9 ⼈ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 酸碱值.

WordPinyinMeaning
氨基酸ān jī suānamino acid
酸性suān xìngacidity
硫酸liú suānsulfuric acid
酸奶suān nǎiyogurt
核酸hé suānnucleic acid; (coll.) nucleic acid test (abbr. for 核酸检测 (hé suān jiǎn cè))
硝酸xiāo suānnitric acid
碱性 (鹼性)jiǎn xìng(chemistry) alkaline
胆碱 (膽鹼)dǎn jiǎncholine (amine related to vitamin B complex)
价值 (價值)jià zhívalue; worth; (ethical, cultural etc) values

See also: Japanese symbol for “ph”.

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.