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掀

xiān

HSK 6 Character

What 掀 means

1. to lift (a lid)
2. to rock
3. to convulse

Example sentences

• 我掀开了盖子。
  I opened the lid.
• 微风在湖面上掀起了一丝丝涟漪。
  Wēifēng zài hú miàn shàng xiānqǐ le yī sī sī liányī.
  A gentle wind made ripples on the surface of the pond.

Words starting with 掀

• 掀起xiān qǐto lift; to raise (a lid etc); (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc)…
• 掀开xiān kāito lift open; to tear open
• 掀翻xiān fānto turn sth over; to overturn
• 掀动xiān dòngto stir; to lift; to set sth in motion
• 掀掉xiān diàoto remove; to tear off
• 掀涌xiān yǒngto seethe; to bubble up
• 掀腾xiān téngto surge up; raging (billows)
• 掀背车xiān bèi chēhatchback
• 掀天揭地xiān tiān jiē dìearth-shattering
• 掀风鼓浪xiān fēng gǔ làngto raise a storm; to stir up trouble; to instigate

Characters that look like 掀

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

• 救jiùto save; to assist; to rescue
• 嫂sǎo(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
• 揪jiūto seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
• 舷xiánside of a ship or an aircraft
• 袱fú(bound form) a cloth used to wrap or cover
• 捱áivariant of 挨

Sounds the same

Read xiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 先beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now
• 鲜fresh; bright (in color); delicious
• 纤fine; delicate; minute
• 仙immortal
• 暹sunrise
• 酰acid radical; -acyl (chemistry)
• 秈common rice
• 氙xenon (chemistry)
• 锨shovel
• 跹to manner of dancing; to walk around
• 祆Ahura Mazda, the creator deity in Zoroastrianism
• 籼long-grained rice; same as 秈