Chinese symbol for “sanitary”
卫生
wèi shēng
Traditional: 衛生
hygienic; sanitary; hygiene; sanitation
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sanitary is 卫生 (wèi shēng), defined as: hygienic; sanitary; hygiene; sanitation.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “sanitary”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 卫生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卫星 (衛星) | wèi xīng | (aerospace) satellite; (astronomy) satellite; moon |
| 保卫 (保衛) | bǎo wèi | to defend; to safeguard |
| 捍卫 (捍衛) | hàn wèi | to defend; to uphold; to safeguard |
| 卫视 (衛視) | wèi shì | satellite TV (abbr. for 卫星电视 (wèi xīng diàn shì)) |
| 防卫 (防衛) | fáng wèi | to defend; defensive |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sanitary”.
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.