Chinese symbol for “flickering”
闪闪
shǎn shǎn
Traditional: 閃閃
flickering; sparkling; glistening; glittering
The closest CC-CEDICT match for flickering is 闪闪 (shǎn shǎn), defined as: flickering; sparkling; glistening; glittering.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “flickering”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烁烁 (爍爍) | shuò shuò | flickering; glittering |
| 颤巍巍 (顫巍巍) | chàn wēi wēi | trembling; swaying |
| 幢幢 | chuáng chuáng | (literary) (of light, shadows) flickering; dancing |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 闪闪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闪电 (閃電) | shǎn diàn | lightning; measure word: 道 (dào) |
| 闪亮 (閃亮) | shǎn liàng | brilliant; shiny |
| 闪耀 (閃耀) | shǎn yào | to glint; to glitter |
| 闪烁 (閃爍) | shǎn shuò | to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate |
| 闪光 (閃光) | shǎn guāng | flash |
See also: Japanese symbol for “flickering”.
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.