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Chinese symbol for “styrene”

苯乙烯
běn yǐ xī
(chemistry) styrene

The closest CC-CEDICT match for styrene is 苯乙烯 (běn yǐ xī), defined as: (chemistry) styrene.

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Characters and stroke order

苯 běn
benzene, benzol
radical 140 ⾋ · 8 strokes
乙 yǐ
second; 2nd heavenly stem
radical 5 ⼄ · 1 strokes
烯 xī
alkene
radical 86 ⽕ · 11 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 苯乙烯.

WordPinyinMeaning
甲苯jiǎ běntoluene C6H5CH3; methylbenzene
苯甲酸běn jiǎ suānbenzoic acid C6H5COOH
苯酚běn fēnphenol C6H5OH
苯环 (苯環)běn huánbenzene ring (chemistry)
二甲苯èr jiǎ běnxylene
聚苯乙烯jù běn yǐ xīpolystyrene
乙醇yǐ chúnethanol; ethyl alcohol
乙烯yǐ xīethylene
烯烃 (烯烴)xī tīng(chemistry) alkene

See also: Japanese symbol for “styrene”.

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.