Chinese symbol for “ream”
锪
huō
Traditional: 鍃
(metalwork) to ream; to countersink; to counterbore; Taiwan pr. [huo4]
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ream is 锪 (huō), defined as: (metalwork) to ream; to countersink; to counterbore; Taiwan pr. [huo4].
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “ream”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 锪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 锪孔 (鍃孔) | huō kǒng | an enlargement at the outer end of a drilled hole, either funnel-shaped (a countersink) or cylindrical (a counterbore) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ream”.
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.