Chinese symbol for “carousel”
旋转木马
xuán zhuǎn mù mǎ
Traditional: 旋轉木馬
merry-go-round; carousel
The closest CC-CEDICT match for carousel is 旋转木马 (xuán zhuǎn mù mǎ), defined as: merry-go-round; carousel.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 旋转木马.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旋转 (旋轉) | xuán zhuǎn | to rotate; to revolve |
| 旋律 | xuán lǜ | melody |
| 旋风 (旋風) | xuàn fēng | whirlwind; tornado |
| 螺旋 | luó xuán | spiral; helix |
| 气旋 (氣旋) | qì xuán | cyclone |
| 主旋律 | zhǔ xuán lǜ | (music) theme; principal melody; (fig.) central theme; main idea |
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform |
| 木材 | mù cái | wood |
| 马上 (馬上) | mǎ shàng | at once; right away |
See also: Japanese symbol for “carousel”.
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.