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Chinese symbol for “substrate”

基板
jī bǎn
substrate

The closest CC-CEDICT match for substrate is 基板 (jī bǎn), defined as: substrate.

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Characters and stroke order

基 jī
foundation, base
radical 32 ⼟ · 11 strokes
板 bǎn
board, plank; plate, slab; unnatural, stiff
radical 75 ⽊ · 8 strokes

Other Chinese words for “substrate”

WordPinyinMeaning
基材jī cáisubstrate
基底jī dǐplinth; base; substrate
下层 (下層)xià céngunderlayer; lower class
基体 (基體)jī tǐbase body; matrix
基床jī chuángfoundation (of building); bed (e.g. bedrock)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 基板.

WordPinyinMeaning
基础 (基礎)jī chǔbase; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental
基本jī běnbasic; fundamental
基地jī dìbase (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
基金jī jīnfund
基于 (基於)jī yúbecause of; on the basis of
基层 (基層)jī céngbasic level; grassroots unit
老板lǎo bǎnvariant of 老板 (lǎo bǎn)
地板dì bǎnfloor

See also: Japanese symbol for “substrate”.

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.