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尴

gān

HSK 6 Character Traditional 尷

What 尴 means

1. used in {尴尬|gān gà}

Example sentences

• 他的话让我很尴尬。
  His words embarrassed me.
• 看见我，她很尴尬。
  Seeing me, she was embarrassed.
• 他说的话让我很尴尬。
  His words embarrassed me.
• 我认为这很令人尴尬。
  I thought that was embarrassing.
• 她说的话让我觉得很尴尬。
  Tā shuō dehuà ràng wǒ juéde hěn gāngà.
  I was embarrassed by what she said.
• 这件事弄得大家都比较尴尬。
  The incident made everyone feel more embarrassed.

Words starting with 尴

• 尴尬gān gàawkward; embarrassed

Characters built on 监

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

• 蓝lánblue; indigo plant
• 滥lànoverflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
• 篮lánbasket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)
• 槛kǎndoor sill; threshold
• 褴lánused in 褴褛

Characters that look like 尴

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

• 瑞ruìlucky; auspicious; propitious
• 稳wěnsettled; steady; stable
• 握wòto hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control
• 辍chuòto stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend
• 琥hǔused in 琥珀
• 棣dìKerria japonica

Sounds the same

Read gān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 干dry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 甘(bound form) sweet; pleasant (contrasted with 苦; to be willing (to do sth)
• 肝liver; (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing…
• 杆(bound form) pole; shaft
• 竿(bound form) pole; rod
• 柑large tangerine
• 苷licorice; glycoside
• 咁so (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 这样
• 酐anhydride
• 坩crucible
• 矸used in 矸石
• 泔slop from rinsing rice