Chinese symbol for “peddling”
倒腾
dǎo teng
Traditional: 倒騰
to move; to shift; to exchange; to buy and sell
The closest CC-CEDICT match for peddling is 倒腾 (dǎo teng), defined as: to move; to shift; to exchange; to buy and sell; peddling.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “peddling”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 倒腾.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打倒 | dǎ dǎo | to overthrow; to knock down |
| 倒闭 (倒閉) | dǎo bì | to go bankrupt; to close down |
| 倒霉 | dǎo méi | to have bad luck; to be out of luck |
| 倒退 | dào tuì | to fall back; to go in reverse |
| 倒数 (倒數) | dào shǔ | to count backwards (from 10 down to 0); to count down |
| 折腾 (折騰) | zhē teng | to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again |
| 沸腾 (沸騰) | fèi téng | (of a liquid) to boil; (of sentiments etc) to boil over |
| 图腾 (圖騰) | tú téng | totem (loanword) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “peddling”.
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.