Chinese symbol for “unsettled”
流浪
liú làng
to drift about; to wander; to roam; nomadic
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unsettled is 流浪 (liú làng), defined as: to drift about; to wander; to roam; nomadic; homeless; unsettled (e.g. population).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “unsettled”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不安分 | bù ān fen | restless; unsettled |
| 栖栖遑遑 (棲棲遑遑) | xī xī huáng huáng | (idiom) restless; unsettled |
| 杌陧 (杌隉) | wù niè | (literary) unsettled; unstable; uneasy |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流浪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交流 | jiāo liú | to exchange; exchange |
| 流行 | liú xíng | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable |
| 主流 | zhǔ liú | main stream (of a river); fig. the essential point |
| 流动 (流動) | liú dòng | to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid |
| 流量 | liú liàng | flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic; (hydrology) discharge |
| 流通 | liú tōng | to circulate; to distribute; circulation; distribution |
| 浪费 (浪費) | làng fèi | to waste; to squander |
| 浪漫 | làng màn | romantic |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unsettled”.
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.