King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

湍 — Chinese character

湍
tuān
current, rapids

Pinyin
tuān
Radical
85 ⽔ (Water)
Strokes
12
Components
氵 耑
Formation
pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 耑
Japanese
湍 as a kanji

Common words with 湍

WordPinyinMeaning
湍流tuān liúturbulence
湍急tuān jírapid (flow of water)

English words written with 湍

湍 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Mencius 1

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.