Chinese symbol for “prism”
棱镜
léng jìng
Traditional: 稜鏡
(optics) prism
The closest CC-CEDICT match for prism is 棱镜 (léng jìng), defined as: (optics) prism.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “prism”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棱柱 (稜柱) | léng zhù | prism |
| 三棱镜 (三稜鏡) | sān léng jìng | (triangular) prism |
| 棱台 (稜臺) | léng tái | prism |
| 角柱体 (角柱體) | jiǎo zhù tǐ | prism (math.) |
| 柱体 (柱體) | zhù tǐ | cylinder; prism (math.) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 棱镜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棱角 (稜角) | léng jiǎo | edge and corner; protrusion |
| 模棱两可 (模稜兩可) | mó léng liǎng kě | equivocal; ambiguous |
| 棱锥 (稜錐) | léng zhuī | pyramid (geometry) |
| 棱柱 (稜柱) | léng zhù | prism |
| 三棱镜 (三稜鏡) | sān léng jìng | (triangular) prism |
| 镜头 (鏡頭) | jìng tóu | camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc) |
| 眼镜 (眼鏡) | yǎn jìng | spectacles; eyeglasses |
| 镜子 (鏡子) | jìng zi | mirror; measure word: 面 (miàn), 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “prism”.
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.