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庵

ān

Character

What 庵 means

1. hut
2. small temple
3. nunnery

Other readings

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

• ānvariant of {庵|ān}

Words starting with 庵

• 庵堂ān tángBuddhist nunnery
• 庵摩勒ān mó lèsee 余甘子
• 庵摩落迦果ān mó luò jiā guǒsee 余甘子

Words containing 庵

• 施耐庵Shī Nài ānShi Nai'an (1296-1371), author of Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh 水浒传
• 西来庵Xī lái ānXilai Temple (Tainan, Taiwan)
• 田家庵区Tián jiā ān QūTianjia'an, a district of Huainan City 淮南市
• 京都念慈庵Jīng dū Niàn cí ānKing-to Nin Jiom, or just Nin Jiom, manufacturer of 枇杷膏
• 田家庵Tián jiā ānsee 田家庵区

Characters built on 奄

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

• 掩yǎnto cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc)…
• 淹yānto flood; to submerge; to drown
• 俺ǎnI (northern dialects)
• 阉yānto castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 鹌ānused in 鹌鹑
• 唵ǎn(interjection) oh!; (dialect) to stuff sth in one's mouth…
• 崦yānname of a mountain in Gansu
• 罨yǎnfoment; valve

Characters that look like 庵

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

• 雇gùto employ; to hire; to rent
• 桑sāng(bound form) mulberry tree
• 鹿lùdeer
• 屡lǚtime and again; repeatedly; frequently
• 痪huànused in 瘫痪
• 厩jiùstable; barn

Sounds the same

Read ān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 安(bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health
• 氨ammonia
• 鞍(bound form) saddle
• 谙to be versed in; to know well
• 桉Eucalyptus globulus; Taiwan pr. àn
• 鹌used in 鹌鹑
• 媕used in 媕婀
• 盦container
• 鞌An, a place in the area of present-day Jinan, Shandong where in 589 BC there was a battle…
• 𩽾used in 鮟鱇; Taiwan pr. àn
• 萻small Buddhist temple
• 鶕old variant of 鹌