Chinese symbol for “piston”
活塞
huó sāi
piston
The closest CC-CEDICT match for piston is 活塞 (huó sāi), defined as: piston.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “piston”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鞲鞴 | gōu bèi | piston (loanword from German "Kolben") |
| 柱塞 | zhù sāi | plunger; (automotive) piston |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 活塞.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 活跃 (活躍) | huó yuè | active; lively |
| 活着 (活著) | huó zhe | alive |
| 活力 | huó lì | energy; vitality |
| 灵活 (靈活) | líng huó | flexible; nimble |
| 堵塞 | dǔ sè | to clog up; blockage |
| 塞车 (塞車) | sāi chē | traffic jam |
See also: Japanese symbol for “piston”.
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.