Chinese symbol for “divert”
分流
fēn liú
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc); to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for divert is 分流 (fēn liú), defined as: to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc); to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “divert”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 改道 | gǎi dào | to change route; to divert (a road or a watercourse) |
| 欢娱 (歡娛) | huān yú | to amuse; to divert |
| 引开 (引開) | yǐn kāi | to lure away; to divert |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 分流.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 部分 | bù fen | part; portion; piece; Taiwan pr. [bu4fen4] |
| 分析 | fēn xī | to analyze; analysis |
| 分别 (分別) | fēn bié | to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart |
| 分钟 (分鐘) | fēn zhōng | minute |
| 十分 | shí fēn | very; completely |
| 分享 | fēn xiǎng | to share (esp. sth enjoyable, useful or beneficial) |
| 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 “divert”.
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.