Chinese symbol for “tumult”
哄
hòng
Traditional: 鬨
tumult; uproar; commotion; disturbance
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tumult is 哄 (hòng), defined as: tumult; uproar; commotion; disturbance.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “tumult”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 哄.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 起哄 (起鬨) | qǐ hòng | to heckle; rowdy jeering |
| 乱哄哄 (亂哄哄) | luàn hōng hōng | noisy and in disarray; in an uproar |
| 哄骗 (哄騙) | hǒng piàn | to deceive; to cheat |
| 哄抬 | hōng tái | to artificially inflate; to bid up (the price) |
| 哄抢 (哄搶) | hōng qiǎng | to panic buy; to loot |
| 一哄而散 | yī hōng ér sàn | to disperse in confusion (idiom) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tumult”.
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.