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撼

hàn

HSK 6 Character

What 撼 means

1. to shake
2. to vibrate

Example sentences

• 这对我是很大的震撼。
  Zhè duì wǒ shì hěn dà de zhènhàn.
  It was a great shock to me.
• 西方世界曾经无可撼动的力量已经开始走下坡路了。
  The disproportionate power of the Western world has started to decline.

Words starting with 撼

• 撼动hàn dòngto shake up; to deal a shock; (fig.) to stir (sb's heart)
• 撼天动地hàn tiān dòng dìearth-shaking
• 撼树蚍蜉hàn shù pí fúsee 蚍蜉撼树

Words containing 撼

• 震撼zhèn hànto shake; to shock; to stun
• 摇撼yáo hànto shake; to rock
• 震撼弹zhèn hàn dànstun grenade; (Taiwan) (fig.) sth that produces shockwaves; bombshell (revelation)
• 震撼性zhèn hàn xìngshocking; stunning; sensational
• 难以撼动nán yǐ hàn dòngunsusceptible to change; deeply entrenched
• 蜻蜓撼石柱qīng tíng hàn shí zhùlit. the dragon-fly shakes the stone tower (idiom)…
• 蚍蜉撼树pí fú hàn shù(lit.) an ant trying to shake a tree (idiom); (fig.) to overrate oneself…
• 蚍蜉撼大树pí fú hàn dà shùlit. an ant trying to shake a big tree (idiom); fig. to overrate one's own strength…

Characters that look like 撼

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

• 播bō(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc)…
• 憾hànregret (sense of loss or dissatisfaction)
• 癌áicancer; (esp.) carcinoma
• 檐yáneaves; ledge or brim
• 糠kānghusk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)
• 臃yōngused in 臃肿

Sounds the same

Read hàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 汉man
• 汗perspiration; sweat; to be speechless (out of helplessness, embarrassment etc)…
• 憾regret (sense of loss or dissatisfaction)
• 旱drought
• 捍to ward off (a blow); to withstand; to defend
• 翰writing brush; writing; pen
• 悍heroic; intrepid; valiant
• 焊to weld; to braze; to solder
• 菡lotus blossom
• 瀚ocean; vastness
• 颔chin; to nod (one's assent)
• 螒Aulacophora femoralis