Chinese symbol for “traverse”
穿越
chuān yuè
to traverse; to pass through; to cross; time travel (as a genre of fiction)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for traverse is 穿越 (chuān yuè), defined as: to traverse; to pass through; to cross; time travel (as a genre of fiction).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “traverse”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 横过 (橫過) | héng guò | to traverse |
| 遍历 (遍歷) | biàn lì | to traverse; to travel throughout |
| 横越 (橫越) | héng yuè | to cross; to pass over |
| 横穿 (橫穿) | héng chuān | to cross; to traverse |
| 横陈 (橫陳) | héng chén | to lie in disarray; to cut across |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 穿越.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 穿着 (穿著) | chuān zhuó | attire; clothes; dress |
| 穿过 (穿過) | chuān guò | to pass through |
| 贯穿 (貫穿) | guàn chuān | to run through; a connecting thread from beginning to end |
| 身穿 | shēn chuān | to wear (a garment) |
| 穿梭 | chuān suō | to shuttle back and forth |
| 越来越 (越來越) | yuè lái yuè | more and more |
| 超越 | chāo yuè | to surpass; to exceed; to transcend |
| 跨越 | kuà yuè | to step across; step over |
See also: Japanese symbol for “traverse”.
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.