Chinese symbol for “gush”
涌出
yǒng chū
Traditional: 湧出
to gush; to gush out; to pour out
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gush is 涌出 (yǒng chū), defined as: to gush; to gush out; to pour out.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “gush”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涌流 (湧流) | yǒng liú | to gush; to spurt |
| 泉涌 (泉湧) | quán yǒng | to gush |
| 喷薄 (噴薄) | pēn bó | to gush; to squirt |
| 井喷 (井噴) | jǐng pēn | (oil) blowout; surge |
| 迸流 | bèng liú | to gush; to spurt |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 涌出.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涌现 (湧現) | yǒng xiàn | to emerge in large numbers; to spring up |
| 涌入 (湧入) | yǒng rù | to come pouring in; influx |
| 汹涌 (洶湧) | xiōng yǒng | to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc); turbulent |
| 涌动 (湧動) | yǒng dòng | (of water, people, thoughts etc) to surge; to well up and flow; to move in waves |
| 风起云涌 (風起雲湧) | fēng qǐ yún yǒng | to surge like a gathering storm (idiom); to grow by leaps and bounds |
| 出现 (出現) | chū xiàn | to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up |
| 出来 (出來) | chū lái | to come out; to appear |
| 提出 | tí chū | to raise (an issue); to propose |
See also: Japanese symbol for “gush”.
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