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吻

wěn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

吻 (wěn) means "kiss; to kiss; mouth". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 吻 means

1. kiss
2. to kiss
3. mouth

Other readings

吻 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• wěnvariant of {吻|wěn}

Example sentences

• 吻我。
  Kiss me.
• 吻她。
  Kiss her.
• 我要吻你。
  I'm going to kiss you.
• 我想亲吻你。
  Wǒ xiǎng qīnwěn nǐ.
  I want to kiss you.
• 我想亲吻妳。
  Wǒ xiǎng qīnwěn nǐ.
  I want to kiss you.
• 他们拥吻着。
  They are hugging and kissing.

Words starting with 吻

• 吻合wěn héto be a good fit; to be identical with; to adjust oneself to
• 吻别wěn biéto kiss goodbye
• 吻戏wěn xìkissing scene (in a movie etc)
• 吻技wěn jìkissing technique
• 吻部wěn bùsnout
• 吻痕wěn hénhickey; love bite

Words containing 吻

• 亲吻qīn wěnto kiss; kiss
• 口吻kǒu wěntone of voice; connotation in intonation; accent (regional etc)
• 接吻jiē wěnto kiss
• 热吻rè wěnto kiss passionately
• 飞吻fēi wěnto blow a kiss
• 强吻qiáng wěnto forcibly kiss; to kiss without consent
• 拥吻yōng wěnto hug and kiss
• 深吻shēn wěnFrench kissing
• 湿吻shī wěnFrench kiss
• 香吻xiāng wěnkiss
• 舌吻shé wěnto French kiss; French kiss
• 钩吻gōu wěnheartbreak grass (Gelsemium elegans)
• 宽吻海豚kuān wěn hǎi túnbottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
• 短吻鳄duǎn wěn èalligator
• 尖吻鲈jiān wěn lúbarramundi or Asian sea bass (Lates calcarifer)

Characters that look like 吻

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

• 均jūn(bound form) equal; uniform; even; (literary) without exception; all
• 咕gū(onomatopoeia) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
• 呦yōuOh! (exclamation of dismay etc); used in 呦呦
• 呛qiàngto irritate the nose; to choke (of smoke, smell etc); pungent
• 呣ḿinterjection expressing a question
• 坳àodepression; cavity; hollow; Taiwan pr. āo

Sounds the same

Read wěn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 稳settled; steady; stable
• 紊involved; tangled; disorderly
• 揾to look for (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 找
• 刎cut across (throat)
• 呡the corners of the mouth; the lips
• 忞disorderly; messy; chaotic

Where 吻 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Warmth, Smiles & Gentle Care (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wěn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.