Chinese symbol for “spill”
涌进
yǒng jìn
Traditional: 湧進
to spill; to overflow (of water, crowds); to crowd (into a space)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for spill is 涌进 (yǒng jìn), defined as: to spill; to overflow (of water, crowds); to crowd (into a space).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “spill”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 撒 | sǎ | to scatter; to sprinkle |
| 泼 (潑) | pō | to splash; to spill |
| 洒 (灑) | sǎ | to sprinkle; to spray |
| 泼掉 (潑掉) | pō diào | spill |
| 溅洒 (濺灑) | jiàn sǎ | to spill; to splatter |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 涌进.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涌现 (湧現) | yǒng xiàn | to emerge in large numbers; to spring up |
| 涌入 (湧入) | yǒng rù | to come pouring in; influx |
| 汹涌 (洶湧) | xiōng yǒng | to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc); turbulent |
| 涌动 (湧動) | yǒng dòng | (of water, people, thoughts etc) to surge; to well up and flow; to move in waves |
| 涌出 (湧出) | yǒng chū | to gush; to gush out |
| 风起云涌 (風起雲湧) | fēng qǐ yún yǒng | to surge like a gathering storm (idiom); to grow by leaps and bounds |
| 进行 (進行) | jìn xíng | (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) |
| 进入 (進入) | jìn rù | to enter; to go into |
See also: Japanese symbol for “spill”.
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.