Chinese symbol for “tides”
浪潮
làng cháo
wave; tides
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tides is 浪潮 (làng cháo), defined as: wave; tides.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 浪潮.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浪费 (浪費) | làng fèi | to waste; to squander |
| 浪漫 | làng màn | romantic |
| 流浪 | liú làng | to drift about; to wander |
| 海浪 | hǎi làng | sea wave |
| 波浪 | bō làng | wave |
| 高潮 | gāo cháo | high tide; high water; upsurge; peak of activity |
| 潮流 | cháo liú | tide; current |
| 热潮 (熱潮) | rè cháo | wave of enthusiasm; craze; upsurge |
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.