Chinese symbol for “ruff”
流苏鹬
liú sū yù
Traditional: 流蘇鷸
(bird species of China) ruff (Calidris pugnax)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ruff is 流苏鹬 (liú sū yù), defined as: (bird species of China) ruff (Calidris pugnax).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流苏鹬.
| 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 |
| 流动 (流動) | liú dòng | to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid |
| 流量 | liú liàng | flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic; (hydrology) discharge |
| 流通 | liú tōng | to circulate; to distribute; circulation; distribution |
| 苏丹 (蘇丹) | sū dān | (loanword) sultan |
| 复苏 (復甦) | fù sū | to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate |
| 鹬蚌相争 (鷸蚌相爭) | yù bàng xiāng zhēng | abbr. for 鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利|鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利[yu4 bang4 xiang1 zheng1 , yu2 weng1 de2 li4] |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ruff”.
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.