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恹

yān

Character Traditional 懨

What 恹 means

1. used in {恹恹|yān yān}

Words starting with 恹

• 恹恹yān yānweak; worried; sickly; wan

Words containing 恹

• 病恹恹bìng yān yānlooking or feeling sickly; weak and dispirited through illness

Characters built on 厌

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

• 魇yǎnto have a nightmare
• 餍yànto eat to the full
• 厣yǎnoperculum (Latin: little lid); a covering flap (in various branches of anatomy)

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
• 嫣(literary) lovely; sweet
• 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