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婵

chán

Character Traditional 嬋

What 婵 means

1. used in {婵娟|chán juān} and {婵媛|chán yuán}

Words starting with 婵

• 婵娟chán juān(literary) beautiful woman; (literary) lovely; graceful; (literary) the moon
• 婵媛chán yuán(literary) (of a woman) graceful; (literary) to be interwoven…

Characters built on 单

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

• 弹dàncrossball; bullet; shot
• 阐chǎnto express; to disclose; to enlighten
• 禅chándhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 惮dàndread; fear; dislike
• 掸dǎnto brush away; to dust off; brush
• 蝉cháncicada
• 郸dānused in place names 邯郸
• 殚dānentirely; to exhaust

Sounds the same

Read chán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 缠to wind around; to wrap round; to coil
• 馋gluttonous; greedy; to have a craving
• 禅dhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 澶still (as of water); still water
• 蝉cicada
• 单used in 单于
• 蟾toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking)…
• 谗to slander; to defame; to misrepresent
• 潺flow; trickle (of water)
• 巉(literary) steep; rugged; jagged; precipitous
• 毚cunning; artful
• 磛cliff; peak