Chinese symbol for “leak”
漏洞
lòu dòng
leak; hole; gap; loophole
The closest CC-CEDICT match for leak is 漏洞 (lòu dòng), defined as: leak; hole; gap; loophole.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “leak”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泄露 | xiè lòu | to leak (information); to divulge; also pr. [xie4lu4] |
| 泄漏 (洩漏) | xiè lòu | (of a liquid or gas) to leak; to divulge; to leak (information) |
| 漏 | lòu | to leak; to divulge |
| 外泄 | wài xiè | to leak (usually secret information) |
| 走漏 | zǒu lòu | to leak (information, secrets etc); to smuggle and evade tax |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 漏洞.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泄漏 (洩漏) | xiè lòu | (of a liquid or gas) to leak; to divulge; to leak (information) |
| 遗漏 (遺漏) | yí lòu | to overlook; to miss |
| 漏水 | lòu shuǐ | (of pipes, ceilings, roofs etc) to leak water; to have a water leak |
| 漏油 | lòu yóu | oil spill; oil leak; (fig.) boo! (opposite of 加油 (jiā yóu)) |
| 疏漏 | shū lòu | to slip up; to overlook by negligence; careless omission; oversight |
| 洞穴 | dòng xué | cave; cavern |
| 黑洞 | hēi dòng | (astronomy) black hole |
| 空洞 | kōng dòng | cavity; empty |
See also: Japanese symbol for “leak”.
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.