Chinese symbol for “springy”
筋道
jīn dao
(of noodles etc) springy; chewy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for springy is 筋道 (jīn dao), defined as: (of noodles etc) springy; chewy.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 筋道.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 钢筋 (鋼筋) | gāng jīn | steel reinforcing bar |
| 脑筋 (腦筋) | nǎo jīn | brains; mind |
| 筋疲力尽 (筋疲力盡) | jīn pí lì jìn | body weary, strength exhausted (idiom); extremely tired; spent |
| 抽筋 | chōu jīn | cramp; charley horse |
| 动脑筋 (動腦筋) | dòng nǎo jīn | to use one's brains; to think |
| 伤脑筋 (傷腦筋) | shāng nǎo jīn | to be a real headache; to find sth a real headache |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5] |
| 报道 (報道) | bào dào | to report (news); report |
See also: Japanese symbol for “springy”.
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.