Chinese symbol for “distribution”
物流
wù liú
distribution (business); logistics
The closest CC-CEDICT match for distribution is 物流 (wù liú), defined as: distribution (business); logistics.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “distribution”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 分销 (分銷) | fēn xiāo | distribution; retail store |
| 运销 (運銷) | yùn xiāo | distribution; transport and sale (of goods) |
| 分布 (分佈) | fēn bù | to scatter; to distribute |
| 配销 (配銷) | pèi xiāo | distribution (of goods for sale) |
| 批发 (批發) | pī fā | wholesale; bulk trade |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 物流.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
| 动物 (動物) | dòng wù | animal |
| 物质 (物質) | wù zhì | matter; substance |
| 生物 | shēng wù | organism; living creature; life form; (attributive) biological; bio- |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
| 植物 | zhí wù | plant; vegetation |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “distribution”.
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.