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Chinese symbol for “pollutant”

污染物
wū rǎn wù
pollutant

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pollutant is 污染物 (wū rǎn wù), defined as: pollutant.

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Characters and stroke order

污 wū
filthy, dirty; polluted, impure
radical 85 ⽔ · 6 strokes
染 rǎn
dye; to catch; to infect; to be contagious
radical 75 ⽊ · 9 strokes
物 wù
thing, substance, matter; creature
radical 93 ⽜ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 污染物.

WordPinyinMeaning
污染wū rǎn(lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate
贪污 (貪污)tān wūto be corrupt; corruption
污水wū shuǐsewage
环境污染 (環境污染)huán jìng wū rǎnenvironmental pollution
污点 (污點)wū diǎnstain; taint
感染gǎn rǎnto infect; infection; (fig.) to influence
传染 (傳染)chuán rǎnto infect; contagious
渲染xuàn rǎnrendering (computing); to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting)
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “pollutant”.

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.