Chinese symbol for “phosphate”
磷酸盐
lín suān yán
Traditional: 磷酸鹽
phosphate (salt or ester of phosphoric acid)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for phosphate is 磷酸盐 (lín suān yán), defined as: phosphate (salt or ester of phosphoric acid).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 磷酸盐.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 磷酸 | lín suān | phosphoric acid |
| 磷肥 | lín féi | phosphate fertilizer |
| 磷脂 | lín zhī | phospholipid |
| 磷虾 (磷蝦) | lín xiā | krill |
| 白磷 | bái lín | white phosphorus |
| 氨基酸 | ān jī suān | amino acid |
| 酸性 | suān xìng | acidity |
| 硫酸 | liú suān | sulfuric acid |
| 食盐 (食鹽) | shí yán | edible salt; table salt |
See also: Japanese symbol for “phosphate”.
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.