Chinese symbol for “interaction”
交流
jiāo liú
to exchange; exchange; communication; interaction
The closest CC-CEDICT match for interaction is 交流 (jiāo liú), defined as: to exchange; exchange; communication; interaction; to have social contact (with sb).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “interaction”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 感应 (感應) | gǎn yìng | response; reaction |
| 交互 | jiāo hù | mutual; interactive |
| 相互作用 | xiāng hù zuò yòng | to interact; interaction |
| 交集 | jiāo jí | (of diverse emotions) to occur simultaneously; to intermingle; common ground; points of commonality; overlap; connection |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 交流.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交易 | jiāo yì | to deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; deal |
| 交通 | jiāo tōng | to be connected; traffic |
| 交换 (交換) | jiāo huàn | to exchange; to swap |
| 外交 | wài jiāo | diplomacy; diplomatic |
| 交给 (交給) | jiāo gěi | to give; to deliver; to hand over |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “interaction”.
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.