Chinese symbol for “shale”
页岩
yè yán
Traditional: 頁岩
shale
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shale is 页岩 (yè yán), defined as: shale.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “shale”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 页岩.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 网页 (網頁) | wǎng yè | web page |
| 页面 (頁面) | yè miàn | page; web page |
| 首页 (首頁) | shǒu yè | home page (of a website); title page |
| 主页 (主頁) | zhǔ yè | home page |
| 书页 (書頁) | shū yè | page of a book |
| 岩石 | yán shí | (geology) rock |
| 岩浆 (岩漿) | yán jiāng | (geology) magma |
| 花岗岩 (花崗岩) | huā gāng yán | granite |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shale”.
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.