Chinese symbol for “torrential”
滔滔
tāo tāo
torrential
The closest CC-CEDICT match for torrential is 滔滔 (tāo tāo), defined as: torrential.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “torrential”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 滔滔.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滔滔不绝 (滔滔不絕) | tāo tāo bù jué | (idiom) to produce a torrent of words; to talk on and on |
| 滔天 | tāo tiān | (of waves, anger, a disaster, a crime etc) towering; overwhelming; immense |
| 滔天大罪 | tāo tiān dà zuì | heinous crime |
| 罪恶滔天 (罪惡滔天) | zuì è tāo tiān | (idiom) to have committed heinous crimes |
| 洪水滔滔 | hóng shuǐ tāo tāo | (idiom) to have flooding over a vast area |
See also: Japanese symbol for “torrential”.
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.
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