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冁

chǎn

Character Traditional 囅

What 冁 means

1. smilingly

Characters built on 单

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

• 弹dàncrossball; bullet; shot
• 阐chǎnto express; to disclose; to enlighten
• 禅chándhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 惮dàndread; fear; dislike
• 掸dǎnto brush away; to dust off; brush
• 蝉cháncicada
• 郸dānused in place names 邯郸
• 殚dānentirely; to exhaust

Sounds the same

Read chǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 产to give birth; to reproduce; to produce
• 阐to express; to disclose; to enlighten
• 铲to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel
• 谄to flatter; to cajole
• 浐name of a river in Shaanxi province; see 浐河
• 蒇to complete; to prepare
• 丳skewer
• 啴used in 啴啴
• 𡶴winding mountain path
• 旵(literary) (of sunlight) to beam down; to illuminate…
• 𬊤to make a fire
• 讇to talk in one's sleep; old variant of 谄