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Chinese symbol for “waddle”

跩
zhuǎi
to waddle; to swagger; (coll.) strutting; self-satisfied

The closest CC-CEDICT match for waddle is 跩 (zhuǎi), defined as: to waddle; to swagger; (coll.) strutting; self-satisfied.

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Characters and stroke order

跩
跩 zhuǎi
to waddle, to limp
radical 157 ⾜ · 13 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 跩.

WordPinyinMeaning
跩文zhuǎi wénsee 转文 (zhuǎi wén) (Tw)

See also: Japanese symbol for “waddle”.

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.