Chinese symbol for “trickle”
涓涓
juān juān
a trickle; tiny stream; sluggish; to flow sluggishly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for trickle is 涓涓 (juān juān), defined as: a trickle; tiny stream; sluggish; to flow sluggishly.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “trickle”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滴流 | dī liú | trickle |
| 淌 | tǎng | to drip; to trickle |
| 沥 (瀝) | lì | to drip; to strain or filter |
| 涓滴 | juān dī | tiny stream; trickle |
| 潺 | chán | flow; trickle (of water) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 涓涓.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涓滴 | juān dī | tiny stream; trickle |
| 涓吉 | juān jí | to choose an auspicious day |
| 涓埃 | juān āi | tiny stream of dust; tiny things |
| 涓埃之力 | juān āi zhī lì | negligible force (idiom); tiny force |
| 涓滴归公 (涓滴歸公) | juān dī guī gōng | every drop returns to the public good (idiom); not one penny is misused |
See also: Japanese symbol for “trickle”.
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.