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Chinese symbol for “sanitation”

保洁
bǎo jié
Traditional: 保潔
sanitation

The closest CC-CEDICT match for sanitation is 保洁 (bǎo jié), defined as: sanitation.

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Characters and stroke order

保 bǎo
to safeguard, to protect, to defend, to care for
radical 9 ⼈ · 9 strokes
洁 jié
clean, pure; to purify, to cleanse
radical 85 ⽔ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “sanitation”

WordPinyinMeaning
卫生 (衛生)wèi shēnghygienic; sanitary; hygiene; sanitation
环卫 (環衛)huán wèipublic cleanliness; (urban) sanitation

Related words

Other words that share a character with 保洁.

WordPinyinMeaning
保护 (保護)bǎo hùto protect; to defend
保证 (保證)bǎo zhèngguarantee; to guarantee
保持bǎo chíto keep; to maintain
保障bǎo zhàngto ensure; to guarantee
确保 (確保)què bǎoto ensure; to guarantee
保险 (保險)bǎo xiǎninsurance; to insure
清洁 (清潔)qīng jiéclean; to clean
简洁 (簡潔)jiǎn jiéconcise; succinct

See also: Japanese symbol for “sanitation”.

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.