Chinese symbol for “pouring”
滂沱
pāng tuó
pouring; flooding
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pouring is 滂沱 (pāng tuó), defined as: pouring; flooding.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “pouring”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 滂沱.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滂沱大雨 | pāng tuó dà yǔ | torrents of rain (idiom) |
| 大雨滂沱 | dà yǔ pāng tuó | see 滂沱大雨 (pāng tuó dà yǔ) |
| 涕泗滂沱 | tì sì pāng tuó | a flood of tears and mucus; broken-hearted and weeping bitterly |
| 滂臭 | pāng chòu | (dialect) stinky; smelly |
| 沱茶 | tuó chá | a cake of tea, commonly Pu'er tea 普洱茶 (Pǔ ěr chá), compacted into a bowl or nest shape; dome shaped tea-brick |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pouring”.
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.