Chinese symbol for “fainting”
眩晕
xuàn yùn
Traditional: 眩暈
vertigo; dizziness; fainting; feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fainting is 眩晕 (xuàn yùn), defined as: vertigo; dizziness; fainting; feeling of swaying, head spinning, lack of balance or floating (e.g. from a stroke); Taiwan pr. [xuan4 yun1].
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “fainting”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昏头昏脑 (昏頭昏腦) | hūn tóu hūn nǎo | confused; dizzy |
| 头昏眼暗 (頭昏眼暗) | tóu hūn yǎn àn | head spinning and eyes dark (idiom); dizzy; fainting |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 眩晕.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 晕眩 (暈眩) | yūn xuàn | to feel dizzy; dizziness |
| 头晕目眩 (頭暈目眩) | tóu yūn mù xuàn | (idiom) to have a dizzy spell; dazzled |
| 目眩 | mù xuàn | dizzy; dazzled |
| 眩目 | xuàn mù | variant of 炫目 (xuàn mù) |
| 目眩神迷 | mù xuàn shén mí | to be dazzled and stunned (idiom) |
| 头晕 (頭暈) | tóu yūn | dizzy |
| 晕倒 (暈倒) | yūn dǎo | to faint; to swoon |
| 晕车 (暈車) | yùn chē | to be carsick |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fainting”.
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.