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噩

è

Character

What 噩 means

1. startling

Example sentences

• 我做噩梦了。
  I had a nightmare.
• 那是个噩梦。
  It was a nightmare.
• 我经常做噩梦。
  I often have nightmares.
• 玛丽亚做了个噩梦。
  Mǎlìyà zuò le gè èmèng.
  Mary had a bad dream.
• 晚上吃多了容易做噩梦。
  Wǎnshang chī duō le róngyì zuò èmèng.
  Eating lots at night can easily give you a nightmare.
• 昨晚我做了一个可怕的噩梦。
  Zuówǎn wǒ zuò le yī gè kěpà de èmèng.
  I had a really bad nightmare last night.

Words starting with 噩

• 噩梦è mèngnightmare
• 噩耗è hàonews of sb's death; sad news
• 噩运è yùnvariant of 厄运

Words containing 噩

• 浑浑噩噩hún hún è è(idiom) muddleheaded

Characters that look like 噩

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

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• 藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
• 薇wēiOsmunda regalis, a species of fern; Taiwan pr. wéi
• 瘸quélame
• 撬qiàoto lift; to pry open; to lever open
• 畿jīterritory around the capital

Sounds the same

Read è, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 饿hungry; to starve (sb)
• 恶evil; fierce; vicious
• 遏to restrain; to check; to hold back
• 厄distressed
• 呃(exclamation); to hiccup
• 萼calyx of a flower
• 锷blade edge; sharp
• 鳄(bound form) alligator; crocodile
• 愕startled
• 扼to grip forcefully; to clutch at; to guard
• 颚jaw; palate
• 轭yoke