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啱

yān

Character

What 啱 means

1. correct
2. suitable
3. to suit sb
4. just now (Cantonese)

Sounds the same

Read yān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烟cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist
• 淹to flood; to submerge; to drown
• 焉where; how
• 殷dark red
• 阉to castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 嫣(literary) lovely; sweet
• 腌to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat)
• 咽throat; pharynx; narrow pass
• 湮(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 胭rouge
• 鄢used in 鄢陵
• 恹used in 恹恹

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