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唵

ǎn

Character

What 唵 means

1. (interjection) oh!
2. dialectto stuff sth in one's mouth
3. (used in buddhist transliterations) om

Example sentences

• 唵嘛呢叭咪吽
  ǎnmaníbāmīhōng
  Oṃ - the gem is in the lotus - hūṃ

Words starting with 唵

• 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ǎn má ní bā mī hōngom mani padme hum (Buddhist mantra)

Characters built on 奄

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

• 掩yǎnto cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc)…
• 淹yānto flood; to submerge; to drown
• 俺ǎnI (northern dialects)
• 阉yānto castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 鹌ānused in 鹌鹑
• 庵ānhut; small temple; nunnery
• 崦yānname of a mountain in Gansu
• 罨yǎnfoment; valve

Characters that look like 唵

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

• 唤huànto call
• 淹yānto flood; to submerge; to drown
• 喃nánmumble in repetition
• 晦huì(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night
• 喳chāused in 喳喳
• 喹kuíused in 喹啉

Sounds the same

Read ǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 俺I (northern dialects)
• 铵ammonium
• 垵(used in place names); variant of 埯
• 揞to apply (medicinal powder to a wound); to cover up; to conceal
• 埯hole in the ground to plant seeds in; to make a hole for seeds; to dibble