The Chinese word for eraser is
橡皮擦

xiàng pí cā

eraser

Chinese Definition

eraser
1. 橡皮擦
Components
橡
1. Acorn (the fruit of the oak tree).
2. A tree in the genus Quercus.
皮
1. skin; peel; shell
甩皮 - to have flaky skin; to have peeling skin
樹皮 - bark
香蕉皮 - banana peel
2. hide; leather
皮鞋 - leather shoes
3. wrapper; cover; skin
餃子zi 皮 - jiaozi wrapper
4. surface; top part
水皮 - water surface
5. rubber
6. thin sheet
鐵皮 - iron sheet
7. outer; superficial
8. sticky; glutinous
9. soggy; non-crispy
10. naughty; disobedient
11. thick-skinned
12. pico- (SI unit prefix)
13. (Cantonese, colloquial) ten thousand dollars
14. (Cantonese) Short for 皮費, operation expense
擦
1. to rub
2. to be close to; to be near
3. to wipe; to scour; to scrub; to erase
把黑板擦乾gān淨 - to wipe the blackboard clean -
擦嗮啲錯字 - to erase all the incorrect characters -
4. to spread (paste etc.); to apply
5. to shred (melons and fruits)
6. (slang) Alternative form of 肏 (to fuck)
7. utensil for rubbing (e.g., eraser, shoe polish)
黑板擦 - blackboard eraser -
8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hanging scroll; wall hanging (a scroll that unrolls vertically for hanging on a wall)

橡皮
1. n. rubber (material derived from the sap of the rubber tree)
2. n. eraser (tool used to erase marks left by a pencil); rubber

橡皮擦子
1. n. (dialectal) eraser (tool used to erase marks left by a pencil); rubber

橡皮擦
1. n. eraser (tool used to erase marks left by a pencil); rubber

黑板擦
1. n. blackboard eraser

板擦
1. n. blackboard eraser

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