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佯

yáng

Character

What 佯 means

1. to feign
2. to pretend

Words starting with 佯

• 佯装yáng zhuāngto pretend; to pose as
• 佯狂yáng kuángto feign madness
• 佯言yáng yánto claim falsely (literary)

Words containing 佯

• 装佯zhuāng yángaffectation
• 倘佯cháng yángvariant of 徜徉

Characters built on 羊

These share the phonetic component 羊 (yáng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 样yàngmanner; pattern; way
• 洋yángocean; vast; foreign
• 氧yǎngoxygen (chemistry)
• 痒yǎngto itch; to tickle
• 烊yángmolten; smelt
• 徉yángto walk back and forth
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)
• 蛘yánga weevil found in rice etc

Characters that look like 佯

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 伴bànpartner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany
• 洋yángocean; vast; foreign
• 俘fúto take prisoner; prisoner of war
• 侈chǐextravagant; wasteful; exaggerating
• 徉yángto walk back and forth
• 泮pàn(literary) to melt; to dissolve

Sounds the same

Read yáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 羊sheep; goat
• 阳positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism)
• 洋ocean; vast; foreign
• 扬to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing
• 杨poplar
• 炀molten; smelt
• 疡ulcers; sores
• 烊molten; smelt
• 徉to walk back and forth
• 旸rising sun; sunshine
• 飏to soar; to fly; to float
• 垟clay sheep buried with the dead