Chinese symbol for “protruding”
凸
tū
to stick out; protruding; convex; male (connector etc); Taiwan pr. [tu2]
The closest CC-CEDICT match for protruding is 凸 (tū), defined as: to stick out; protruding; convex; male (connector etc); Taiwan pr. [tu2].
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “protruding”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 凸.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凸显 (凸顯) | tū xiǎn | to stand out clearly; to make prominent |
| 凸现 (凸現) | tū xiàn | to come to prominence; to appear clearly |
| 凸起 | tū qǐ | convex; protruding |
| 凸出 | tū chū | to protrude; to stick out |
| 凹凸 | āo tū | concave or convex; bumps and holes |
| 凸轮 (凸輪) | tū lún | cam |
See also: Japanese symbol for “protruding”.
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.