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扦

qiān

Character

What 扦 means

1. short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc
2. skewer
3. prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc
4. dialectto stick in
5. to bolt (a door)
6. to arrange (flowers in a vase)
7. to graft (tree)
8. to pedicure
9. to peel (an apple etc)

Words starting with 扦

• 扦插qiān chā(agriculture) to plant by cuttage; to propagate from cuttings
• 扦脚qiān jiǎo(dialect) pedicure; to trim one's toenails

Words containing 扦

• 蜡扦là qiāncandlestick with a spike, onto which candles are impaled

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

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