Chinese symbol for “wiggle”
蠕动
rú dòng
Traditional: 蠕動
to wiggle; to squirm; peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wiggle is 蠕动 (rú dòng), defined as: to wiggle; to squirm; peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “wiggle”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蠕动.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蠕虫 (蠕蟲) | rú chóng | worm |
| 蠕变 (蠕變) | rú biàn | creep (materials science) |
| 蠕蠕 | rú rú | wiggling; squirming |
| 肠蠕动 (腸蠕動) | cháng rú dòng | peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall) |
| 蠕动前进 (蠕動前進) | rú dòng qián jìn | wriggle |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
| 行动 (行動) | xíng dòng | operation; action |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wiggle”.
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.