Chinese symbol for “protrusion”
棱角
léng jiǎo
Traditional: 稜角
edge and corner; protrusion; sharpness (of a protrusion); craggy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for protrusion is 棱角 (léng jiǎo), defined as: edge and corner; protrusion; sharpness (of a protrusion); craggy; ridge corner.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 棱角.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棱镜 (稜鏡) | léng jìng | (optics) prism |
| 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 |
| 角色 | jué sè | role; part (in a play or movie etc); also pr. [jiao3se4] |
| 角度 | jiǎo dù | angle; (fig.) point of view |
| 主角 | zhǔ jué | leading role; lead; protagonist |
See also: Japanese symbol for “protrusion”.
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.