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嫣

yān

Character

What 嫣 means

1. literarylovely; sweet

Words starting with 嫣

• 嫣然yān ránbeautiful; sweet; engaging
• 嫣然一笑yān rán yī xiào(idiom) to smile sweetly
• 嫣红yān hóngbright red

Words containing 嫣

• 姹紫嫣红chà zǐ yān hónglit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom); fig. beautiful flowers

Characters that look like 嫣

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

• 媳xídaughter-in-law
• 遴lín(literary) to select
• 遢tāused in 邋遢; Taiwan pr. tà
• 媾gòuto marry; to copulate
• 鹊quèmagpie
• 嫡dí(bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶

Sounds the same

Read yān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烟cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist
• 淹to flood; to submerge; to drown
• 焉where; how
• 殷dark red
• 阉to castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 腌to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat)
• 咽throat; pharynx; narrow pass
• 湮(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 胭rouge
• 啱correct; suitable; to suit sb
• 鄢used in 鄢陵
• 恹used in 恹恹