Chinese symbol for “drool”
流口水
liú kǒu shuǐ
to drool; to salivate; (fig.) to covet; to lust after
The closest CC-CEDICT match for drool is 流口水 (liú kǒu shuǐ), defined as: to drool; to salivate; (fig.) to covet; to lust after.
Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.
Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “drool”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 垂涎 | chuí xián | to drool; to salivate; (fig.) to covet; to desire greedily |
| 垂涎三尺 | chuí xián sān chǐ | to drool (over) (idiom); to yearn for |
| 流涎 | liú xián | (literary) to salivate; to drool; (fig.) to crave sth hungrily |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流口水.
| 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 |
| 流通 | liú tōng | to circulate; to distribute; circulation; distribution |
| 人口 | rén kǒu | population; people |
| 出口 | chū kǒu | an exit; 个 (gè) |
| 水平 | shuǐ píng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “drool”.
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.
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