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埙

xūn

Character Traditional 塤

What 埙 means

1. ocarina
2. wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes

Example sentences

• 我新年的愿望是学会吹奥卡利纳埙。
  My New Year's resolution is to learn how to play the ocarina.

Characters built on 员

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

• 损sǔn(bound form) to decrease; to diminish; (bound form) to harm; to damage…
• 勋xūn(bound form) meritorious accomplishment
• 陨yǔn(bound form) to fall from the sky; variant of 殒
• 殒yǔn(literary) to perish; to die
• 郧yúnname of a feudal state
• 筼yúnused in 筼筜

Sounds the same

Read xūn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 熏to smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils
• 薰sweet-smelling grass; Coumarouna odorata; tonka beans
• 荤used in 荤粥
• 勋(bound form) meritorious accomplishment
• 醺helplessly intoxicated
• 窨to scent tea with flowers; variant of 熏
• 獯used in 獯鬻
• 焄fumes from sacrifice
• 壎ancient porcelain wind-instrument
• 曛twilight; sunset
• 𫄸crimson
• 臐lamb soup

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xūn correctly.
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