Chinese symbol for “mobile”
流动
liú dòng
Traditional: 流動
to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid
The closest CC-CEDICT match for mobile is 流动 (liú dòng), defined as: to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “mobile”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 行动 (行動) | xíng dòng | operation; action |
| 移动式 (移動式) | yí dòng shì | mobile |
| 移动 (移動) | yí dòng | to move; movement |
| 游动 (游動) | yóu dòng | to move about; to go from place to place |
| 动态雕塑 (動態雕塑) | dòng tài diāo sù | (fine arts) a mobile |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交流 | jiāo liú | to exchange; exchange |
| 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 |
| 流量 | liú liàng | flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic; (hydrology) discharge |
| 流通 | liú tōng | to circulate; to distribute; circulation; distribution |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “mobile”.
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.