Chinese symbol for “styrofoam”
泡沫塑料
pào mò sù liào
styrofoam
The closest CC-CEDICT match for styrofoam is 泡沫塑料 (pào mò sù liào), defined as: styrofoam.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “styrofoam”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 保丽龙 (保麗龍) | bǎo lì lóng | styrofoam |
| 发泡胶 (發泡膠) | fā pào jiāo | expanded polystyrene (EPS); styrofoam |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 泡沫塑料.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泡沫 | pào mò | foam; (soap) bubble |
| 泡泡 | pào pao | bubbles |
| 灯泡 (燈泡) | dēng pào | light bulb; see also 电灯泡 (diàn dēng pào) |
| 浸泡 | jìn pào | to steep; to soak |
| 气泡 (氣泡) | qì pào | bubble; blister (in metal) |
| 泡妞 | pào niū | to pick up girls; to play around with girls |
| 唾沫 | tuò mo | spittle; saliva |
| 白沫 | bái mò | froth; foam (coming from the mouth) |
| 塑料 | sù liào | plastic; plastics (general term for synthetic polymer materials) |
| 资料 (資料) | zī liào | material; resources |
See also: Japanese symbol for “styrofoam”.
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.