Chinese symbol for “ruffle”

拂动

fú dòng

Traditional: 拂動

(of a breeze) to make (hair, leaves, clothing etc) sway gently; to ruffle

The closest CC-CEDICT match for ruffle is 拂动 (fú dòng), defined as: (of a breeze) to make (hair, leaves, clothing etc) sway gently; to ruffle.

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Characters and stroke order

拂 fú

to shake off, to brush away; dust

radical 64 ⼿ · 8 strokes

动 dòng

to move, to happen; movement, action

radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

動 dòng

Related words

Other words that share a character with 拂动.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
拂晓 (拂曉)	fú xiǎo	daybreak; approach of dawn
吹拂	chuī fú	to brush; to caress (of breeze)
飘拂 (飄拂)	piāo fú	to drift lightly
拂袖而去	fú xiù ér qù	to storm off in a huff (idiom)
拂尘 (拂塵)	fú chén	horsetail whisk; duster
照拂	zhào fú	to look after; to care for
活动 (活動)	huó dòng	to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
运动 (運動)	yùn dòng	to move; to exercise

See also: Japanese symbol for “ruffle”.

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.