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楝

liàn

Character

What 楝 means

1. Melia japonica

Words containing 楝

• 苦楝kǔ liànchinaberry (Melia azedarach)

Characters that look like 楝

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

• 携xiéto carry; to take along; to bring along
• 裸luǒnaked
• 棵kēclassifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
• 禅chándhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 楔xiēwedge; to hammer in (variant of 揳
• 棣dìKerria japonica

Sounds the same

Read liàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 练to practice; to train; to drill
• 炼to refine; to smelt
• 链chain; cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m)…
• 恋to feel attached to; to long for; to love
• 殓to prepare a dead body for coffin
• 潋full of water; trough
• 湅to boil raw silk (to soften and clean it)
• 澰(literary) to moisten; to wet; to soak in water
• 萰Ampelopsis japonica (creeper with root used in TCM); same as 白蔹
• 敛variant of 殓