Chinese symbol for “dilation”
扩张
kuò zhāng
Traditional: 擴張
expansion; dilation; to expand (e.g. one's power or influence); to broaden
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dilation is 扩张 (kuò zhāng), defined as: expansion; dilation; to expand (e.g. one's power or influence); to broaden.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 扩张.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扩大 (擴大) | kuò dà | to expand; to enlarge |
| 扩展 (擴展) | kuò zhǎn | to extend; to expand |
| 扩散 (擴散) | kuò sàn | to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse |
| 扩建 (擴建) | kuò jiàn | to extend (a building, an airport runway etc) |
| 扩充 (擴充) | kuò chōng | to expand |
| 主张 (主張) | zhǔ zhāng | to advocate; to stand for |
| 紧张 (緊張) | jǐn zhāng | nervous; keyed up |
| 夸张 (誇張) | kuā zhāng | to exaggerate; overstated; exaggerated |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dilation”.
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.