Chinese symbol for “uranium”
铀
yóu
Traditional: 鈾
uranium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. [you4]
The closest CC-CEDICT match for uranium is 铀 (yóu), defined as: uranium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. [you4].
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 铀.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浓缩铀 (濃縮鈾) | nóng suō yóu | enriched uranium |
| 贫铀 (貧鈾) | pín yóu | depleted uranium (D-38) |
| 氧化铀 (氧化鈾) | yǎng huà yóu | uranium oxide |
| 二氧化铀 (二氧化鈾) | èr yǎng huà yóu | uranium dioxide |
| 低浓缩铀 (低濃縮鈾) | dī nóng suō yóu | low-enriched uranium (LEU) |
| 六氟化铀 (六氟化鈾) | liù fú huà yóu | uranium hexafluoride (UF6) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “uranium”.
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.