Chinese symbol for “strum”
拨动
bō dòng
Traditional: 撥動
to stir; to prod; to poke; to move sideways
The closest CC-CEDICT match for strum is 拨动 (bō dòng), defined as: to stir; to prod; to poke; to move sideways; to strum (on a guitar etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 拨动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拨款 (撥款) | bō kuǎn | to allocate funds; appropriation |
| 拨打 (撥打) | bō dǎ | to call; to dial |
| 拨乱反正 (撥亂反正) | bō luàn fǎn zhèng | bring order out of chaos; set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder |
| 挑拨 (挑撥) | tiǎo bō | to incite disharmony; to instigate |
| 拨号 (撥號) | bō hào | to dial a telephone number |
| 调拨 (調撥) | diào bō | to send (products); to allocate |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
See also: Japanese symbol for “strum”.
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.