Chinese symbol for “slowdown”
趋缓
qū huǎn
Traditional: 趨緩
to slow down; to ease up; to abate; slowdown
The closest CC-CEDICT match for slowdown is 趋缓 (qū huǎn), defined as: to slow down; to ease up; to abate; slowdown; downturn.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 趋缓.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 趋势 (趨勢) | qū shì | trend; tendency |
| 日趋 (日趨) | rì qū | (increasing) day by day; (more critical) with every passing day |
| 趋向 (趨向) | qū xiàng | direction; trend; to incline |
| 趋于 (趨於) | qū yú | to tend towards |
| 大势所趋 (大勢所趨) | dà shì suǒ qū | (idiom) the prevailing trend; the trend of the times; an inevitable direction |
| 缓慢 (緩慢) | huǎn màn | slow; unhurried; sluggish |
| 缓解 (緩解) | huǎn jiě | to bring relief; to alleviate (a crisis) |
| 缓和 (緩和) | huǎn hé | to ease (tension); to alleviate |
See also: Japanese symbol for “slowdown”.
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.