Chinese symbol for “buffer”
缓冲
huǎn chōng
Traditional: 緩衝
buffer; to cushion; to adjust to sharp changes
The closest CC-CEDICT match for buffer is 缓冲 (huǎn chōng), defined as: buffer; to cushion; to adjust to sharp changes.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “buffer”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 缓冲.
| 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 |
| 冲突 (衝突) | chōng tū | conflict; to conflict |
| 冲击 (沖擊) | chōng jī | variant of 冲击 (chōng jī) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “buffer”.
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.