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旵

chǎn

Character

What 旵 means

1. literary(of sunlight) to beam down
2. to illuminate
3. (used in place names and given names)

Sounds the same

Read chǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 产to give birth; to reproduce; to produce
• 阐to express; to disclose; to enlighten
• 铲to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel
• 谄to flatter; to cajole
• 浐name of a river in Shaanxi province; see 浐河
• 蒇to complete; to prepare
• 冁smilingly
• 丳skewer
• 啴used in 啴啴
• 𡶴winding mountain path
• 𬊤to make a fire
• 讇to talk in one's sleep; old variant of 谄

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• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chǎn correctly.
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