缓 — Chinese character
缓
huǎn
slow, gradual; to postpone, to delay
- Pinyin
- huǎn
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 纟 爰
- Formation
- pictophonetic — thread; meaning component 纟; sound component 爰
- Traditional
- 緩
Common words with 缓
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缓慢 (緩慢) | huǎn màn | slow; unhurried; sluggish |
| 缓解 (緩解) | huǎn jiě | to bring relief; to alleviate (a crisis) |
| 缓和 (緩和) | huǎn hé | to ease (tension); to alleviate |
| 减缓 (減緩) | jiǎn huǎn | to slow down; to retard |
| 缓存 (緩存) | huǎn cún | (computing) cache; buffer memory |
| 缓刑 (緩刑) | huǎn xíng | suspended sentence; probation |
| 缓冲 (緩衝) | huǎn chōng | buffer; to cushion |
| 缓缓 (緩緩) | huǎn huǎn | slowly; unhurriedly |
| 延缓 (延緩) | yán huǎn | to defer; to postpone |
| 迟缓 (遲緩) | chí huǎn | slow; sluggish |
| 放缓 (放緩) | fàng huǎn | to slow; to slow down (the pace of) |
| 暂缓 (暫緩) | zàn huǎn | to postpone |
English words written with 缓
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.