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愆

qiān

Character

What 愆 means

1. fault
2. transgression

Other readings

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

• qiānold variant of {愆|qiān}

Words starting with 愆

• 愆尤qiān yóucrime; offense; fault
• 愆期qiān qī(formal) to delay; to miss a deadline; to fail to do sth at the appointed time

Words containing 愆

• 罪愆zuì qiānsin; offense

Characters that look like 愆

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

• 程chéngrule; order; regulations
• 想xiǎngto think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that)
• 愁chóuto worry about
• 靓jìngto make up (one's face); to dress; (of one's dress) beautiful
• 颓tuíto crumble; to collapse; to decline
• 鹊quèmagpie

Sounds the same

Read qiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 铅lead (chemistry)
• 千thousand
• 签to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document…
• 牵to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve
• 谦modest
• 迁to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc)
• 骞(literary) to hold high
• 搴to seize; to pull; to hold up the hem of clothes
• 褰to lift (clothes, sheets); lower garments
• 悭stingy
• 仟thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 芊green; luxuriant growth