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硝xiāo化huà棉mián

  1. nitrocellulose; guncotton

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Characters in this word

3
硝
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

saltpeter, to tan (leather)

Pinyin
xiāo
Strokes
12
Words starting with 硝Words ending in 硝Anywhere in a word
化
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

variant of 花[hua1]

Pinyin
huā
Strokes
4
Frequency
7240 of 2500
Words starting with 化Words ending in 化Anywhere in a word
棉
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

generic term for cotton or kapok, cotton, padded or quilted with cotton

Pinyin
mián
Strokes
12
Frequency
34684 of 2500
Words starting with 棉Words ending in 棉Anywhere in a word