Chinese symbol for “toxin”

毒素

dú sù

toxin; (fig.) pernicious influence

The closest CC-CEDICT match for toxin is 毒素 (dú sù), defined as: toxin; (fig.) pernicious influence.

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Characters and stroke order

毒 dú

poison, venom; drug, narcotic

radical 80 ⽏ · 9 strokes

素 sù

plain; white; vegetarian; formerly; normally

radical 120 ⽷ · 10 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 毒素.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
病毒	bìng dú	virus
毒品	dú pǐn	drugs; narcotics
有毒	yǒu dú	poisonous
中毒	zhòng dú	to be poisoned
毒药 (毒藥)	dú yào	poison
吸毒	xī dú	to take drugs
因素	yīn sù	element; factor
素质 (素質)	sù zhì	inner quality; basic essence

See also: Japanese symbol for “toxin”.

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.