Chinese symbol for “swollen”
膨
péng
swollen
The closest CC-CEDICT match for swollen is 膨 (péng), defined as: swollen.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “swollen”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泡 | pāo | puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names) |
| 胀大 (脹大) | zhàng dà | swollen |
| 浮肿 (浮腫) | fú zhǒng | (nonspecialist term for 水肿 (shuǐ zhǒng)) to suffer from edema; swollen; bloated; puffy |
| 肿 (腫) | zhǒng | to swell; swelling |
| 胀 (脹) | zhàng | to swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 膨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 膨胀 (膨脹) | péng zhàng | to expand; to inflate |
| 通货膨胀 (通貨膨脹) | tōng huò péng zhàng | inflation |
| 膨大 | péng dà | to swell; to inflate |
| 膨润土 (膨潤土) | péng rùn tǔ | bentonite (mineralogy) |
| 膨化 | péng huà | to pop (corn into popcorn); to puff (grains, legumes etc) |
| 膨松剂 (膨鬆劑) | péng sōng jì | leavening agent |
See also: Japanese symbol for “swollen”.
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.