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宦

huàn

Character

What 宦 means

1. imperial official
2. court eunuch

Other readings

宦 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Huànsurname Huan

Words starting with 宦

• 宦官huàn guāncourt eunuch
• 宦海huàn hǎiofficialdom; bureaucracy
• 宦门huàn ménfamily of officials; family with connections to the bureaucracy…
• 宦骑huàn qíhorse guard; imperial cavalry guard (of officials or eunuchs)
• 宦海风波huàn hǎi fēng bōlit. raging sea of bureaucracy; officials causing a big fuss

Words containing 宦

• 仕宦shì huàn(literary) to serve as an official
• 官宦guān huànfunctionary; official
• 羁宦jī huàn(literary) to serve as a government official far from one's native place
• 显宦xiǎn huànhigh official
• 官宦人家guān huàn rén jiāfamily of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)

Characters that look like 宦

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

• 案àn(legal) case; incident; record
• 室shìroom; work unit; grave
• 官guāngovernment official; governmental; official
• 赁lìnto rent
• 宵xiāonight
• 叟sǒuold gentleman; old man

Sounds the same

Read huàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 换to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute
• 幻fantasy
• 患to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune
• 唤to call
• 痪used in 瘫痪
• 浣to wash; to rinse; any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty)
• 焕(bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous
• 奂excellent
• 涣to dissipate; to dissolve
• 豢to rear; to raise (animals)
• 轘to tear between chariots (as punishment)
• 鲩grass carp