Chinese symbol for “tundra”
苔原
tái yuán
tundra
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tundra is 苔原 (tái yuán), defined as: tundra.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “tundra”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冻原 (凍原) | dòng yuán | tundra |
| 冻土 (凍土) | dòng tǔ | frozen earth; permafrost |
| 冻土层 (凍土層) | dòng tǔ céng | permafrost; tundra |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 苔原.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 苔藓 (苔蘚) | tái xiǎn | moss |
| 海苔 | hǎi tái | nori |
| 青苔 | qīng tái | moss; lichen |
| 舌苔 | shé tāi | (TCM) coating on the tongue (examined for the purpose of diagnosis) |
| 蒜苔 | suàn tái | variant of 蒜薹 (suàn tái) |
| 原因 | yuán yīn | cause; origin |
| 原来 (原來) | yuán lái | original; former; originally; formerly; at first |
| 原则 (原則) | yuán zé | principle; doctrine |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tundra”.
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.