Chinese symbol for “swirl”

溁

yíng

Traditional: 濚

(archaic) (of water) to swirl; to eddy; (used in place names)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for swirl is 溁 (yíng), defined as: (archaic) (of water) to swirl; to eddy; (used in place names).

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Characters and stroke order

溁

溁 yíng

a stream, eddy; to eddy

radical 85 ⽔ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

濚 yíng

See also: Japanese symbol for “swirl”.

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.