Chinese symbol for “sensor”
传感器
chuán gǎn qì
Traditional: 傳感器
sensor; transducer
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sensor is 传感器 (chuán gǎn qì), defined as: sensor; transducer.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “sensor”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 检测仪 (檢測儀) | jiǎn cè yí | sensor; detector |
| 探头 (探頭) | tàn tóu | to stick one's head out (from behind sth); to pop one's head in (through a window etc); probe; sensor |
| 感测器 (感測器) | gǎn cè qì | (Tw) sensor |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 传感器.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 传统 (傳統) | chuán tǒng | tradition; traditional |
| 宣传 (宣傳) | xuān chuán | to disseminate; to give publicity to |
| 传播 (傳播) | chuán bō | to disseminate; to propagate; to spread |
| 传说 (傳說) | chuán shuō | legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... |
| 上传 (上傳) | shàng chuán | to upload |
| 传递 (傳遞) | chuán dì | to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive |
| 感觉 (感覺) | gǎn jué | feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive |
| 感到 | gǎn dào | to feel; to sense; to perceive |
| 武器 | wǔ qì | weapon; arms |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sensor”.
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.