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Chinese symbol for “polyethylene”

聚乙烯
jù yǐ xī
polythene; polyethylene

The closest CC-CEDICT match for polyethylene is 聚乙烯 (jù yǐ xī), defined as: polythene; polyethylene.

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Characters and stroke order

聚 jù
to assemble, to collect, to meet
radical 128 ⽿ · 14 strokes
乙 yǐ
second; 2nd heavenly stem
radical 5 ⼄ · 1 strokes
烯 xī
alkene
radical 86 ⽕ · 11 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 聚乙烯.

WordPinyinMeaning
聚集jù jíto assemble; to gather
聚会 (聚會)jù huìparty; gathering
聚焦jù jiāoto focus (light, electron beam etc); to focus attention
凝聚níng jùto condense; to coagulate
聚合jù héto bring together; to combine into a whole; (chemistry) to polymerize
团聚 (團聚)tuán jùto reunite; to have a reunion
乙醇yǐ chúnethanol; ethyl alcohol
乙烯yǐ xīethylene
烯烃 (烯烴)xī tīng(chemistry) alkene

See also: Japanese symbol for “polyethylene”.

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.