Chinese symbol for “throbbing”
脉动
mài dòng
Traditional: 脈動
pulse; throbbing; pulsation
The closest CC-CEDICT match for throbbing is 脉动 (mài dòng), defined as: pulse; throbbing; pulsation.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 脉动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山脉 (山脈) | shān mài | mountain range; 条 (tiáo) |
| 脉冲 (脈衝) | mài chōng | pulse (physics) |
| 动脉 (動脈) | dòng mài | artery |
| 脉络 (脈絡) | mài luò | arteries and veins; network of blood vessels |
| 血脉 (血脈) | xuè mài | blood vessels |
| 脉搏 (脈搏) | mài bó | pulse (both medical and figurative) |
| 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 “throbbing”.
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.