Chinese symbol for “tide”
潮
cháo
tide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy; (coll.) inferior; substandard
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tide is 潮 (cháo), defined as: tide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy; (coll.) inferior; substandard.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “tide”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 潮流 | cháo liú | tide; current |
| 潮汐 | cháo xī | tide |
| 潮水 | cháo shuǐ | tide |
| 海潮 | hǎi cháo | tide |
| 狂潮 | kuáng cháo | surging tide; (fig.) tide |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 潮.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 高潮 | gāo cháo | high tide; high water; upsurge; peak of activity |
| 潮流 | cháo liú | tide; current |
| 浪潮 | làng cháo | wave; tides |
| 热潮 (熱潮) | rè cháo | wave of enthusiasm; craze; upsurge |
| 潮湿 (潮濕) | cháo shī | damp; moist |
| 思潮 | sī cháo | tide of thought; way of thinking characteristic of a historical period |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tide”.
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.