Chinese symbol for “pyrite”
黄铁矿
huáng tiě kuàng
Traditional: 黃鐵礦
pyrite
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pyrite is 黄铁矿 (huáng tiě kuàng), defined as: pyrite.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 黄铁矿.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黄金 (黃金) | huáng jīn | gold; golden (opportunity) |
| 黄色 (黃色) | huáng sè | yellow; vulgar; lewd; pornographic |
| 黄昏 (黃昏) | huáng hūn | dusk; evening |
| 黄瓜 (黃瓜) | huáng guā | cucumber; 条 (tiáo) |
| 金黄 (金黃) | jīn huáng | golden yellow; golden |
| 黄牛 (黃牛) | huáng niú | ox; cattle; scalper of tickets etc |
| 铁路 (鐵路) | tiě lù | railroad; railway |
| 地铁 (地鐵) | dì tiě | underground railway; subway; subway train |
| 煤矿 (煤礦) | méi kuàng | coal mine; coal seam |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pyrite”.
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.