Chinese symbol for “saturate”
浸透
jìn tòu
to soak; to saturate; to drench; to permeate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for saturate is 浸透 (jìn tòu), defined as: to soak; to saturate; to drench; to permeate.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “saturate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 弥漫 (彌漫) | mí màn | to pervade; to fill the air |
| 浸湿 (浸濕) | jìn shī | to soak; to saturate |
| 浸淫 | jìn yín | (literary) (of a liquid or vapor etc) to permeate; to saturate; to suffuse; (literary) (fig.) to be steeped; to be immersed (in an environment, field of study, emotion etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 浸透.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沉浸 | chén jìn | to soak; to permeate |
| 浸泡 | jìn pào | to steep; to soak |
| 浸润 (浸潤) | jìn rùn | to permeate; to percolate |
| 浸入 | jìn rù | to soak; to dip |
| 浸水 | jìn shuǐ | to immerse in water; to drench; to inundate; irrigation water |
| 透过 (透過) | tòu guò | to pass through; to penetrate; by means of; via |
| 透露 | tòu lù | to leak out; to divulge |
| 透明 | tòu míng | transparent; (fig.) transparent; open to scrutiny |
See also: Japanese symbol for “saturate”.
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.