Chinese symbol for “toxic”

中毒性

zhòng dú xìng

poisonous; toxic

The closest CC-CEDICT match for toxic is 中毒性 (zhòng dú xìng), defined as: poisonous; toxic.

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Characters and stroke order

中 zhòng

central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Ch

radical 2 ⼁ · 4 strokes

毒 dú

poison, venom; drug, narcotic

radical 80 ⽏ · 9 strokes

性 xìng

sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective

radical 61 ⼼ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 中毒性.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
其中	qí zhōng	among; in
中心	zhōng xīn	center; heart; core
中央	zhōng yāng	central; middle
中学 (中學)	zhōng xué	middle school
之中	zhī zhōng	inside; among
集中	jí zhōng	to concentrate; to centralize
病毒	bìng dú	virus
毒品	dú pǐn	drugs; narcotics
女性	nǚ xìng	woman; the female sex

See also: Japanese symbol for “toxic”.

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.