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Chinese symbol for “fluctuation”

波动性
bō dòng xìng
Traditional: 波動性
fluctuation

The closest CC-CEDICT match for fluctuation is 波动性 (bō dòng xìng), defined as: fluctuation.

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Characters and stroke order

波 bō
waves, ripples, breakers; undulations
radical 85 ⽔ · 8 strokes
动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes
性 xìng
sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective
radical 61 ⼼ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “fluctuation”

WordPinyinMeaning
变动 (變動)biàn dòngto change; to fluctuate

Related words

Other words that share a character with 波动性.

WordPinyinMeaning
波动 (波動)bō dòngto undulate; to fluctuate
波音bō yīnmordent (music)
风波 (風波)fēng bōdisturbance; crisis
波特bō tè(loanword) baud (computing); porter (beer)
波及bō jíto spread to; to involve
微波wēi bōripple; microwave
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
运动 (運動)yùn dòngto move; to exercise
女性nǚ xìngwoman; the female sex

See also: Japanese symbol for “fluctuation”.

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.