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堑

qiàn

Character Traditional 塹

What 堑 means

1. bound formmoat; chasm

Example sentences

• 吃一堑长一智。
  Chī yī qiàn cháng yī zhì.
  A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
• 吃一堑，长一智。
  Chīyīqiàn, zhǎngyīzhì.
  A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.

Words starting with 堑

• 堑壕qiàn háotrench; entrenchment
• 堑壕战qiàn háo zhàntrench warfare

Words containing 堑

• 地堑dì qiàntrench, rift valley
• 天堑tiān qiànnatural moat
• 路堑lù qiàn(civil engineering) cutting (for a railway or highway)
• 东非大地堑Dōng Fēi dà dì qiànGreat East African rift valley
• 吃一堑，长一智chī yī qiàn , zhǎng yī zhìFall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom)…

Characters built on 斩

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

• 渐jiàngradual; gradually
• 椠qiànwooden tablet; edition

Characters that look like 堑

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

• 暂zàntemporary; Taiwan pr. zhàn
• 哲zhéwise; a sage
• 梁liángroof beam; beam (structure); bridge
• 彭Péngsurname Peng
• 梨lípear
• 彗huìbroom

Sounds the same

Read qiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 歉to apologize; to regret; deficient
• 欠to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in
• 嵌to inlay; to embed; Taiwan pr. qiān
• 倩pretty; winsome; to ask for sb's help
• 茜(bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia); (bound form) madder red…
• 纤boatman's tow-rope
• 芡Gorgon plant; fox nut (Gorgon euryale or Euryale ferox); makhana (Hindi)
• 皘white
• 篟luxuriant growth of bamboo
• 蒨luxuriant growth
• 慊dissatisfied
• 椠wooden tablet; edition