Chinese symbol for “scavenger”
食腐动物
shí fǔ dòng wù
Traditional: 食腐動物
scavenger
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scavenger is 食腐动物 (shí fǔ dòng wù), defined as: scavenger.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 食腐动物.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 食品 | shí pǐn | foodstuff; food; provisions |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
| 粮食 (糧食) | liáng shi | foodstuff; cereals |
| 美食 | měi shí | culinary delicacy; fine food |
| 饮食 (飲食) | yǐn shí | eating and drinking; food and drink; diet |
| 食用 | shí yòng | to eat; to consume; edible |
| 腐败 (腐敗) | fǔ bài | corruption; to corrupt |
| 豆腐 | dòu fu | tofu; bean curd |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scavenger”.
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.