Chinese symbol for “strain”
滤
lǜ
Traditional: 濾
to strain; to filter
The closest CC-CEDICT match for strain is 滤 (lǜ), defined as: to strain; to filter.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “strain”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 品系 (品繫) | pǐn xì | strain (of a species) |
| 毒株 | dú zhū | (virus) strain |
| 劳损 (勞損) | láo sǔn | strain (medicine) |
| 累 | lèi | tired; weary |
| 菌种 (菌種) | jūn zhǒng | (microorganism) species; strain; (fungus and mushroom) spore; spawn |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 滤.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 过滤 (過濾) | guò lǜ | to filter |
| 过滤器 (過濾器) | guò lǜ qì | filtering apparatus; (machine) filter |
| 滤波器 (濾波器) | lǜ bō qì | signal filter |
| 滤波 (濾波) | lǜ bō | to filter electric signals |
| 滤镜 (濾鏡) | lǜ jìng | (photography) filter |
| 滤芯 (濾芯) | lǜ xīn | filter cartridge; filter |
See also: Japanese symbol for “strain”.
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.