Chinese symbol for “toad”
蟾
chán
toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking); (mythology) the three-legged toad said to exist in the moon; (metonym) the moon
The closest CC-CEDICT match for toad is 蟾 (chán), defined as: toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking); (mythology) the three-legged toad said to exist in the moon; (metonym) the moon.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “toad”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蟾.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蟾蜍 | chán chú | toad |
| 爪蟾 | zhuǎ chán | Xenopus (type of frog) |
| 蟾宫折桂 (蟾宮折桂) | chán gōng zhé guì | lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon); fig. to succeed in the imperial examination |
See also: Japanese symbol for “toad”.
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.