Chinese symbol for “circulate”
流通
liú tōng
to circulate; to distribute; circulation; distribution
The closest CC-CEDICT match for circulate is 流通 (liú tōng), defined as: to circulate; to distribute; circulation; distribution.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “circulate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流动 (流動) | liú dòng | to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid |
| 融通 | róng tōng | to circulate; to flow (esp. capital) |
| 流传 (流傳) | liú chuán | to spread; to circulate; to hand down |
| 传 (傳) | chuán | to pass on; to spread |
| 循环 (循環) | xún huán | to cycle; to circulate |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流通.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 主流 | zhǔ liú | main stream (of a river); fig. the essential point |
| 流动 (流動) | liú dòng | to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid |
| 流量 | liú liàng | flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic; (hydrology) discharge |
| 通过 (通過) | tōng guò | to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation) |
| 交通 | jiāo tōng | to be connected; traffic |
| 通常 | tōng cháng | regular; usual; normal; usually; normally |
See also: Japanese symbol for “circulate”.
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.