Chinese symbol for “airflow”
气流
qì liú
Traditional: 氣流
stream of air; airflow; slipstream; draft
The closest CC-CEDICT match for airflow is 气流 (qì liú), defined as: stream of air; airflow; slipstream; draft; breath; turbulence (of aircraft).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 气流.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天气 (天氣) | tiān qì | weather |
| 空气 (空氣) | kōng qì | air; atmosphere |
| 气候 (氣候) | qì hòu | (meteorology) climate; (fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs) |
| 生气 (生氣) | shēng qì | to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness |
| 勇气 (勇氣) | yǒng qì | courage |
| 气氛 (氣氛) | qì fēn | atmosphere; mood |
| 交流 | jiāo liú | to exchange; exchange |
| 流行 | liú xíng | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable |
See also: Japanese symbol for “airflow”.
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.