Chinese symbol for “jiggle”
跳动
tiào dòng
Traditional: 跳動
to throb; to pulse; to bounce; to jiggle
The closest CC-CEDICT match for jiggle is 跳动 (tiào dòng), defined as: to throb; to pulse; to bounce; to jiggle; to jump about.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “jiggle”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 跳动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跳舞 | tiào wǔ | to dance |
| 心跳 | xīn tiào | heartbeat; pulse |
| 跳跃 (跳躍) | tiào yuè | to jump; to leap |
| 跳出 | tiào chū | to jump out; fig. to appear suddenly |
| 跳水 | tiào shuǐ | to dive (into water); (sports) diving |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
| 行动 (行動) | xíng dòng | operation; action |
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.