Chinese symbol for “phage”
噬菌体
shì jūn tǐ
Traditional: 噬菌體
bacteriophage; phage
The closest CC-CEDICT match for phage is 噬菌体 (shì jūn tǐ), defined as: bacteriophage; phage.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 噬菌体.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吞噬 | tūn shì | to swallow; to engulf |
| 反噬 | fǎn shì | to backfire on; to rebound on |
| 吞噬细胞 (吞噬細胞) | tūn shì xì bāo | phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter) |
| 巨噬细胞 (巨噬細胞) | jù shì xì bāo | macrophage |
| 吞噬作用 | tūn shì zuò yòng | (biology) phagocytosis |
| 细菌 (細菌) | xì jūn | bacterium; germ |
| 杆菌 (桿菌) | gǎn jūn | bacillus (any rod-shaped bacteria) |
| 真菌 | zhēn jūn | fungi; fungus |
| 媒体 (媒體) | méi tǐ | media, esp. news media |
See also: Japanese symbol for “phage”.
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.