Chinese symbol for “exile”
流放
liú fàng
to exile; to banish; to deport; to float (logs) downstream
The closest CC-CEDICT match for exile is 流放 (liú fàng), defined as: to exile; to banish; to deport; to float (logs) downstream.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “exile”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流放.
| 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 |
| 开放 (開放) | kāi fàng | to bloom; to open |
| 放弃 (放棄) | fàng qì | to renounce; to abandon; to give up |
See also: Japanese symbol for “exile”.
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.