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栓
shuān
What 栓 means
- bottle stopper
- plug
- (gun) bolt
- (grenade) pin
Example sentences
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螺栓我找到了，螺帽在哪里？I've got the bolts. Where are the nuts?
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他在墙上钻了个洞，把膨胀螺栓塞进去，拧上一颗螺丝，然后在螺丝上挂了一幅阿尔卑斯山的画。He drilled a hole in the wall, pushed a Rawlplug into it, screwed in a screw, and hung on the screw a picture of the Alps.
Words starting with 栓
- 栓剂shuān jìsuppository
- 栓塞shuān sè(medicine) embolism
- 栓子shuān zi(medicine) embolus
- 栓皮shuān pícork
- 栓皮栎shuān pí lìChinese cork oak (Quercus variabilis)
Words containing 栓
- 枪栓qiāng shuāngun bolt
- 溶栓róng shuānthrombolysis (med.)
- 螺栓luó shuānbolt (male component of nut and bolt)
- 血栓xuè shuānblood clot; thrombus
- 音栓yīn shuān(music) organ stop
- 止血栓zhǐ xuè shuānplug to stop bleeding; tampon (medicine)
- 消火栓xiāo huǒ shuānfire hydrant
- 消防栓xiāo fáng shuānfire hydrant
- 肺栓塞fèi shuān sèpulmonary embolism (medicine)
- 血栓病xuè shuān bìngthrombosis
- 血栓症xuè shuān zhèngthrombosis
- 月经棉栓yuè jīng mián shuāntampon
- 甘油栓剂gān yóu shuān jìglycerine suppository
- 血栓形成xuè shuān xíng chéngthrombosis
- 双唑泰栓shuāng zuò tài shuānmetronidazole, clotrimazole and chlorhexidine acetate (as suppository)
- 门栓mén shuānvariant of 门闩
Characters built on 全
These share the phonetic component 全 (quán), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.
- 诠quánto explain; to comment; to annotate
- 痊quánto recover (from illness)
- 铨quánto estimate; to select
- 拴shuānto tie up
- 荃quán(fragrant plant)
- 筌quánbamboo fish trap
Characters that look like 栓
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 检jiǎnto check; to examine; to inspect
- 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead
- 捡jiǎnto pick up; to collect; to gather
- 拴shuānto tie up
- 捻niǎnto twirl (in the fingers)
- 桉ānEucalyptus globulus; Taiwan pr. àn
Sounds the same
Read shuān, tone for tone, but written differently.
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