Chinese symbol for “physical”
物理
wù lǐ
physics; physical; relating to the material world
The closest CC-CEDICT match for physical is 物理 (wù lǐ), defined as: physics; physical; relating to the material world.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 物理.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
| 动物 (動物) | dòng wù | animal |
| 物质 (物質) | wù zhì | matter; substance |
| 生物 | shēng wù | organism; living creature; life form; (attributive) biological; bio- |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
| 植物 | zhí wù | plant; vegetation |
| 管理 | guǎn lǐ | to supervise; to manage |
| 处理 (處理) | chǔ lǐ | to handle; to deal with; to punish |
See also: Japanese symbol for “physical”.
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.