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暹

xiān

Character

What 暹 means

1. sunrise

Words starting with 暹

• 暹粒Xiān lìSiem Reap, Cambodia
• 暹罗Xiān luóSiam (former name of Thailand)
• 暹罗语Xiān luó yǔSiamese (Thai) language
• 暹逻Xiān luóvariant of 暹罗

Characters built on 辶

These share the phonetic component 辶 (chuò), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 边biānside; edge; margin
• 连liánto link; to join; to connect
• 遍biàneverywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time
• 遣qiǎn(bound form) to dispatch; to send; (bound form) to drive away; to dispel
• 迁qiānto move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc)

Characters that look like 暹

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

• 遵zūnto observe; to obey; to follow
• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 薄bómeager; slight; weak
• 滴dīto drip; to let drip; to apply (eye drops etc); (bound form) a drop (of liquid)
• 遴lín(literary) to select
• 遽jùhurry; fast; suddenly

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
• 掀to lift (a lid); to rock; to convulse
• 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