Chinese symbol for “flowing”
流畅
liú chàng
Traditional: 流暢
flowing (of speech, writing); fluent; smooth and easy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for flowing is 流畅 (liú chàng), defined as: flowing (of speech, writing); fluent; smooth and easy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “flowing”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流动性 (流動性) | liú dòng xìng | flowing; shifting; fluidity; mobility |
| 湝 | jiē | flowing (of water) |
| 跌宕昭彰 | diē dàng zhāo zhāng | flowing (of prose); free |
| 沆 | hàng | a ferry; fog |
| 洋洋洒洒 (洋洋灑灑) | yáng yáng sǎ sǎ | voluminous; flowing (of speeches, articles etc) (idiom) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流畅.
| 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 |
| 畅销 (暢銷) | chàng xiāo | to sell well; bestselling; chart-topping |
| 畅通 (暢通) | chàng tōng | unobstructed; unimpeded; free-flowing; smooth |
See also: Japanese symbol for “flowing”.
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.