Chinese symbol for “proliferate”
扩散
kuò sàn
Traditional: 擴散
to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse
The closest CC-CEDICT match for proliferate is 扩散 (kuò sàn), defined as: to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “proliferate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蕃 | fán | luxuriant; flourishing |
| 再育 | zài yù | to increase; to multiply |
| 滋蔓 | zī màn | (literary) to spread and grow; to proliferate |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 扩散.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扩大 (擴大) | kuò dà | to expand; to enlarge |
| 扩展 (擴展) | kuò zhǎn | to extend; to expand |
| 扩张 (擴張) | kuò zhāng | expansion; dilation |
| 扩建 (擴建) | kuò jiàn | to extend (a building, an airport runway etc) |
| 扩充 (擴充) | kuò chōng | to expand |
| 分散 | fēn sàn | to scatter; to disperse |
| 解散 | jiě sàn | to dissolve; to disband |
| 散发 (散發) | sàn fā | to distribute; to emit; to give off |
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.
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