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Chinese symbol for “unadulterated”

纯粹
chún cuì
Traditional: 純粹
pure; unadulterated; purely; completely

The closest CC-CEDICT match for unadulterated is 纯粹 (chún cuì), defined as: pure; unadulterated; purely; completely.

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Characters and stroke order

纯 chún
pure, clean; simple, genuine
radical 120 ⽷ · 7 strokes
粹 cuì
pure, unadulterated; essence
radical 119 ⽶ · 14 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “unadulterated”

WordPinyinMeaning
纯正 (純正)chún zhèngpure; unadulterated
精纯 (精純)jīng chúnpure; unadulterated

Related words

Other words that share a character with 纯粹.

WordPinyinMeaning
单纯 (單純)dān chúnsimple; pure
纯洁 (純潔)chún jiépure; clean and honest
纯净 (純淨)chún jìngpure; clean
纯属 (純屬)chún shǔto be purely; pure and simple
清纯 (清純)qīng chúnfresh and pure
民粹主义 (民粹主義)mín cuì zhǔ yìpopulism
精粹jīng cuìsuccinct; pure and concise
国粹 (國粹)guó cuìnational essence; quintessence of national culture

See also: Japanese symbol for “unadulterated”.

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.