Chinese symbol for “culvert”
涵洞
hán dòng
culvert
The closest CC-CEDICT match for culvert is 涵洞 (hán dòng), defined as: culvert.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “culvert”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 涵洞.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 内涵 (內涵) | nèi hán | meaningful content; implication |
| 涵盖 (涵蓋) | hán gài | to cover; to comprise |
| 涵义 (涵義) | hán yì | content; meaning |
| 涵养 (涵養) | hán yǎng | to cultivate (personal qualities); (of forests etc) to support; to provide a suitable environment for the replenishment of (natural resource |
| 蕴涵 (蘊涵) | yùn hán | to contain; to accumulate |
| 意涵 | yì hán | (Tw) meaning; significance; import; 层 (céng) |
| 漏洞 | lòu dòng | leak; hole |
| 洞穴 | dòng xué | cave; cavern |
See also: Japanese symbol for “culvert”.
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.