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堰

yàn

Character

What 堰 means

1. weir

Words starting with 堰

• 堰塞湖yàn sè húbarrier lake; landslide dam; dammed lake
• 堰蜓座Yàn tíng zuòChamaeleon (constellation)

Words containing 堰

• 都江堰Dū jiāng yànDujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site…
• 围堰wéi yàna cofferdam
• 塘堰táng yànirrigation pond or dam
• 姜堰区Jiāng yàn QūJiangyan, a district of Taizhou City 泰州市
• 都江堰市Dū jiāng yàn ShìDujiangyan, a county-level city in Chengdu City 成都市
• 十堰市Shí yàn ShìShiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省
• 兵来将敌，水来土堰bīng lái jiàng dí , shuǐ lái tǔ yàncounter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom)…
• 十堰Shí yànsee 十堰市
• 姜堰Jiāng yànsee 姜堰区

Characters built on 匽

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

• 偃yǎnto lie supine; to stop; to fall down
• 郾yǎnused in 郾城

Characters that look like 堰

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

• 幅fúwidth; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures
• 堪kān(bound form) may; can; (bound form) to endure; to bear; (in 堪舆
• 塌tāto collapse; to droop; to settle down
• 惬qiè(literary) satisfied; content
• 瑛yīng(literary) translucent stone similar to jade; (literary) luster of jade
• 堀kūcave; hole

Sounds the same

Read yàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 验to examine; to test; to check
• 厌(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
• 宴(bound form) to entertain at a banquet; (bound form) banquet; feast; (literary) peaceful…
• 艳bright; fresh and attractive; glamorous; (bound form) amorous; romantic…
• 咽to swallow
• 焰flame
• 燕swallow (family Hirundinidae); old variant of 宴
• 雁wild goose
• 彦accomplished; elegant
• 砚ink-stone
• 晏late; quiet
• 滟tossing of billows