Chinese symbol for “skim”
涉猎
shè liè
Traditional: 涉獵
to skim (through a book); to read cursorily; to dip into
The closest CC-CEDICT match for skim is 涉猎 (shè liè), defined as: to skim (through a book); to read cursorily; to dip into.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “skim”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 点水 (點水) | diǎn shuǐ | to skim; lightly touching the water (as the dragonfly in the idiom 蜻蜓點水|蜻蜓点水) |
| 克扣 (剋扣) | kè kòu | to wrongfully withhold part of what is due (to sb); to shortchange; to skim (pay, rations, resources etc) |
| 撇去 | piē qù | skim |
| 流览 (流覽) | liú lǎn | to skim; to browse |
| 掠 | lüè | to take over by force; to rob |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 涉猎.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涉及 | shè jí | to involve; to relate to; to concern; to touch upon |
| 干涉 | gān shè | to interfere; to meddle |
| 涉嫌 | shè xián | to be a suspect (in a crime); to be suspected of |
| 交涉 | jiāo shè | to negotiate (with); to have dealings (with) |
| 牵涉 (牽涉) | qiān shè | to involve; implicated |
| 涉案 | shè àn | (of a perpetrator, victim, weapon, sum of money etc) to be involved in the case |
| 猎人 (獵人) | liè rén | hunter |
| 狩猎 (狩獵) | shòu liè | to hunt; hunting |
See also: Japanese symbol for “skim”.
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.