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Chinese symbol for “pills”

丸子
wán zi
pills; balls; meatballs

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pills is 丸子 (wán zi), defined as: pills; balls; meatballs.

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Characters and stroke order

丸 wán
ball, pebble, pellet, pill
radical 3 ⼂ · 3 strokes
子 zi
son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
radical 39 ⼦ · 3 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 丸子.

WordPinyinMeaning
药丸 (藥丸)yào wánpill; measure word: 粒 (lì)
睾丸 (睪丸)gāo wántesticle
弹丸 (彈丸)dàn wánpellet
鱼丸 (魚丸)yú wánfish ball
肉丸ròu wánmeatball
孩子hái zichild
儿子 (兒子)ér zison
电子 (電子)diàn zǐelectronic; electron (particle physics)

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.