Chinese symbol for “trudge”
跋涉
bá shè
to trudge; to trek
The closest CC-CEDICT match for trudge is 跋涉 (bá shè), defined as: to trudge; to trek.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “trudge”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蹅 | chǎ | (coll.) to trudge (in mud, snow etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 跋涉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长途跋涉 (長途跋涉) | cháng tú bá shè | long and difficult trek |
| 跋扈 | bá hù | domineering; bossy |
| 跋山涉水 | bá shān shè shuǐ | to travel over land and water (idiom) |
| 题跋 (題跋) | tí bá | short comments; preface and postscript |
| 序跋 | xù bá | preface and postscript |
| 涉及 | shè jí | to involve; to relate to; to concern; to touch upon |
| 干涉 | gān shè | to interfere; to meddle |
| 涉嫌 | shè xián | to be a suspect (in a crime); to be suspected of |
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.