Chinese symbol for “twang”

抽痛

chōu tòng

to throb with pain; throbbing pain; twang; pang

The closest CC-CEDICT match for twang is 抽痛 (chōu tòng), defined as: to throb with pain; throbbing pain; twang; pang; 阵 (zhèn).

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Characters and stroke order

抽 chōu

to draw out, to pull out; to sprout

radical 64 ⼿ · 8 strokes

痛 tòng

ache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly

radical 104 ⽧ · 12 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 抽痛.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
抽烟 (抽煙)	chōu yān	variant of 抽烟 (chōu yān)
抽象	chōu xiàng	abstract; abstraction
抽出	chōu chū	to take out; to extract
抽取	chōu qǔ	to extract; to remove
抽屉 (抽屜)	chōu ti	drawer
痛苦	tòng kǔ	pain; suffering
疼痛	téng tòng	pain; (of a body part) to be painful; to be sore; to hurt
头痛 (頭痛)	tóu tòng	to have a headache

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.