Chinese symbol for “substation”
变电站
biàn diàn zhàn
Traditional: 變電站
(transformer) substation
The closest CC-CEDICT match for substation is 变电站 (biàn diàn zhàn), defined as: (transformer) substation.
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Characters and stroke order
站 zhàn
stand, station; to halt, to stand; website; measure word for stands an
radical 117 ⽴ · 10 strokes
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “substation”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 变电站.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 改变 (改變) | gǎi biàn | to change; to alter |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
| 变成 (變成) | biàn chéng | to change into; to turn into |
| 变得 (變得) | biàn de | to become |
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform |
| 变态 (變態) | biàn tài | to metamorphose (biology); abnormal |
| 电影 (電影) | diàn yǐng | movie; film; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 电话 (電話) | diàn huà | telephone; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 网站 (網站) | wǎng zhàn | website |
See also: Japanese symbol for “substation”.
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.