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冕

miǎn

Character

What 冕 means

1. crown in the form of a horizontal board with hanging decorations
2. imperial crown

Example sentences

• 不管你有什幺冠冕堂皇的理由，这样做是不对的。
  No matter what grand and lofty reason you have, it's not right to do this.
• 于是彼拉多把耶稣带去鞭打。兵丁用荆棘编作冠冕，戴在他头上，又给他穿上紫袍。他们上前一遍遍地打他，说道：「万岁，犹太人的王！」又打他的脸。
  Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

Words starting with 冕

• 冕雀miǎn què(bird species of China) sultan tit (Melanochlora sultanea)
• 冕宁县Miǎn níng XiànMianning, a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 凉山彝族自治州
• 冕柳莺miǎn liǔ yīng(bird species of China) eastern crowned warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus)
• 冕冠miǎn guānsee 冕
• 冕宁Miǎn níngsee 冕宁县

Words containing 冕

• 冠冕堂皇guān miǎn táng huánghigh-sounding; dignified; pompous (idiom)
• 加冕jiā miǎnto crown; coronation
• 卫冕wèi miǎnto defend the crown (in sports championship)
• 冠冕guān miǎnroyal crown; official hat; official
• 日冕rì miǎncorona
• 北冕座Běi miǎn zuòCorona Borealis (constellation)
• 南冕座Nán miǎn zuòCorona Australis (constellation)
• 日冕层rì miǎn céngthe sun's corona
• 轩冕xuān miǎn(literary) curtained carriage and ceremonial cap (symbols of a senior official)…
• 暗冕鹪莺àn miǎn jiāo yīng(bird species of China) rufescent prinia (Prinia rufescens)

Characters built on 免

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

• 娩miǎnto give birth to a child
• 勉miǎnto exhort; to make an effort
• 俛miǎnto exhort

Characters that look like 冕

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

• 象xiàngelephant; shape; form
• 莱láiname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 莫mòdo not; there is none who
• 葱cōngscallion; green onion
• 萸yúused in 茱萸
• 奚xī(literary) what?; where?; why?

Sounds the same

Read miǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 免to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office
• 勉to exhort; to make an effort
• 缅distant; remote; detailed
• 娩to give birth to a child
• 腼used in 腼腆
• 湎used in 沉湎
• 沔inundation; name of a river
• 渑used in 渑池
• 眄to ogle at; to squint at
• 俛to exhort
• 丏hidden from view; barrier to ward off arrows
• 偭to transgress