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Chinese symbol for “saline”

生理盐水
shēng lǐ yán shuǐ
Traditional: 生理鹽水
saline (medicine)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for saline is 生理盐水 (shēng lǐ yán shuǐ), defined as: saline (medicine).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

生 shēng
life, lifetime; birth; growth
radical 100 ⽣ · 5 strokes
理 lǐ
science, reason, logic; to manage
radical 96 ⽟ · 11 strokes
盐 yán
salt
radical 108 ⽫ · 10 strokes
水 shuǐ
water, liquid, lotion, juice
radical 85 ⽔ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 生理盐水.

WordPinyinMeaning
发生 (發生)fā shēngto happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")
生活shēng huóto live; life
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild
生产 (生產)shēng chǎnto produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
产生 (產生)chǎn shēngto arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
先生xiān shengteacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.)
管理guǎn lǐto supervise; to manage
处理 (處理)chǔ lǐto handle; to deal with; to punish
食盐 (食鹽)shí yánedible salt; table salt
水平shuǐ pínghorizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “saline”.

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.

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