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攀

pān

HSK 6 Character

What 攀 means

1. to climb (by pulling oneself up)
2. to implicate
3. to claim connections of higher status

Example sentences

• 艾米莉恨攀登。
  àimǐlì hèn pāndēng.
  Emily hates climbing.
• 我们想攀登富士山。
  We want to climb Mt. Fuji.
• 他曾四次攀登富士山。
  He climbed Mount Fuji four times.
• 价格一直在稳定地攀升。
  Jiàgé yīzhí zài wěndìng de pānshēng.
  Prices have been climbing steadily.
• 松鼠有很好的攀爬能力。
  Squirrels are very good climbers.
• 西洋常春藤是攀缘藤本植物。
  English ivy is a climbing vine.

Words starting with 攀

• 攀登pān dēngto climb; to pull oneself up; to clamber
• 攀升pān shēngto clamber up; (of prices etc) to rise
• 攀谈pān tánto chat
• 攀比pān bǐto make invidious comparisons; to compete with; to emulate
• 攀岩pān yánrock climbing; to climb a rockface
• 攀枝花pān zhī huākapok (tree)
• 攀供pān gòngto implicate others, without foundation, in confessing one's own crime
• 攀害pān hàidamaged by slander
• 攀扯pān chěto implicate
• 攀折pān zhéto snap off (flowers, leaves, twigs etc from a tree or shrub)
• 攀援pān yuánto climb up (a rope etc); climbing (plant)
• 攀爬pān páto climb
• 攀缘pān yuánto climb up (a rope etc); climbing (plant)
• 攀亲pān qīnto seek to profit by family ties
• 攀越pān yuèto climb over; to get over (difficulties); to scale
• 攀附pān fùto climb (of climbing plants); to creep; to cling on to
• 攀山家pān shān jiāmountaineer (HK)
• 攀高枝pān gāo zhī(colloquial) to try to improve one's social standing by marrying or affiliating with…
• 攀枝花市Pān zhī huā ShìPanzhihua, prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province 四川省
• 攀亲道故pān qīn dào gù(idiom) to use claims to kinship or friendship to climb socially
• 攀附权贵pān fù quán guìto cling to the powerful and rich (idiom); social climbing
• 攀高枝儿pān gāo zhī rerhua form of 攀高枝
• 攀高结贵pān gāo jié guìlit. to cling to the high, connect to the rich (idiom)…
• 攀诬pān wūto frame; to accuse unjustly

Words containing 攀

• 高不可攀gāo bù kě pāntoo high to reach (idiom); eminent and unapproachable
• 高攀gāo pānsocial climbing; to claim connections with people in higher social class
• 不敢高攀bù gǎn gāo pānlit. not dare to pull oneself up high (humble term); I cannot presume on your attention
• 中华攀雀Zhōng huá pān què(bird species of China) Chinese penduline tit (Remiz consobrinus)
• 白冠攀雀bái guān pān què(bird species of China) white-crowned penduline tit (Remiz coronatus)
• 高攀不上gāo pān bù shàngto be unworthy to associate with (sb of higher social status)
• 夤缘攀附yín yuán pān fùto cling to the rich and powerful (idiom); to advance one's career by currying favor…

Characters that look like 攀

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

• 籍jí(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 馨xīnfragrant
• 孽nièson born of a concubine; disaster; sin
• 藜líname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 鬃zōngbristles; horse's mane
• 餮tiè(literary) greedy; gluttonous

Sounds the same

Read pān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 潘(archaic) water in which rice has been washed; (Taiwan) kitchen waste…
• 眅show the whites of eyes
• 番surname Pan
• 扳variant of 攀