Chinese symbol for “spruce”
云杉
yún shān
Traditional: 雲杉
spruce
The closest CC-CEDICT match for spruce is 云杉 (yún shān), defined as: spruce.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 云杉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 风云 (風雲) | fēng yún | weather; unstable situation |
| 白云 (白雲) | bái yún | white cloud |
| 云端 (雲端) | yún duān | high in the clouds; (computing) the cloud |
| 云集 (雲集) | yún jí | to gather (in a crowd); to converge |
| 星云 (星雲) | xīng yún | nebula |
| 乌云 (烏雲) | wū yún | black cloud |
| 紫杉醇 | zǐ shān chún | Taxol (a.k.a. Paclitaxel), mitotic inhibitor used in cancer chemotherapy |
| 水杉 | shuǐ shān | metasequoia |
See also: Japanese symbol for “spruce”.
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.