Chinese symbol for “scanner”
扫描仪
sǎo miáo yí
Traditional: 掃描儀
scanner (device)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scanner is 扫描仪 (sǎo miáo yí), defined as: scanner (device).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “scanner”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 扫描仪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扫描 (掃描) | sǎo miáo | to scan |
| 打扫 (打掃) | dǎ sǎo | to clean; to sweep |
| 横扫 (橫掃) | héng sǎo | to sweep away; to sweep across |
| 扫除 (掃除) | sǎo chú | to clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe out |
| 扫荡 (掃蕩) | sǎo dàng | (military) to mop up; to crack down on; to eradicate |
| 扫地 (掃地) | sǎo dì | to sweep the floor; (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom |
| 描述 | miáo shù | to describe; description |
| 描写 (描寫) | miáo xiě | to describe; to depict; to portray; depiction; portrayal |
| 仪式 (儀式) | yí shì | ceremony |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scanner”.
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.