Chinese symbol for “tickle”
发痒
fā yǎng
Traditional: 發癢
to tickle; to itch
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tickle is 发痒 (fā yǎng), defined as: to tickle; to itch.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “tickle”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挠痒痒 (撓癢癢) | náo yǎng yang | to tickle |
| 痒 | yǎng | variant of 痒 (yǎng); to itch |
| 痒 (癢) | yǎng | to itch; to tickle |
| 痒痒 (癢癢) | yǎng yang | to itch; to tickle |
| 搔痒 (搔癢) | sāo yǎng | to scratch (an itch); to tickle |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发痒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 发现 (發現) | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 发布 (發佈) | fā bù | variant of 发布 (fā bù) |
| 痒痒 (癢癢) | yǎng yang | to itch; to tickle |
| 瘙痒 (瘙癢) | sào yǎng | to itch; itchiness |
| 无关痛痒 (無關痛癢) | wú guān tòng yǎng | (idiom) to not affect sb; irrelevant; of no importance; insignificant |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tickle”.
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.