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噙

qín

Character

What 噙 means

1. to hold in (usually refers the mouth or eyes)

Example sentences

• 我的眼里噙满泪水。
  My eyes are watery.

Characters built on 禽

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

• 擒qínto capture
• 檎qínused in 林檎

Sounds the same

Read qín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 琴guqin 古琴; musical instrument in general
• 勤diligent; industrious; hardworking; frequent; regular; constant; (bound form) work; duty…
• 禽(bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals; old variant of 擒
• 擒to capture
• 芹Chinese celery
• 嗪used in phonetic transcription -xine, -zine or -chin
• 螓small cicada with a square head
• 檎used in 林檎
• 芩Phragmites japonica
• 慬(literary) brave; worried; distressed
• 庈(person)
• 锓to carve