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楦

xuàn

Character Traditional 楥

What 楦 means

1. (wooden) shoe last
2. variant of {楦|xuàn}

Other readings

楦 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• xuànto block (a hat); to stretch (a shoe)

Words starting with 楦

• 楦子xuàn zishoe tree; hat block
• 楦头xuàn toutoe box (of a shoe); shoe last (shoemaker's tool)

Words containing 楦

• 鞋楦xié xuànshoe tree
• 搬楦头bān xuàn toulit. to move the shoes on the shoe tree (idiom); fig. to expose shameful secrets (old)

Characters built on 宣

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

• 渲xuànwash (color)
• 喧xuānclamor; noise
• 萱xuānorange day-lily (Hemerocallis flava)
• 暄xuāngenial and warm
• 瑄xuānornamental piece of jade
• 煊xuānvariant of 暄
• 揎xuānto roll up one's sleeves; to slap with the palm

Sounds the same

Read xuàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 炫to dazzle; to boast; to show off
• 旋to whirl; immediately; variant of 镟
• 眩(literary) dizzy; (literary) dazzled; bewildered; to dazzle (variant of 炫
• 镟to shape on a lathe; to peel with a knife; to turn in (a screw)
• 渲wash (color)
• 绚adorned; swift; gorgeous
• 铉stick-like implement inserted into the handles of a tripod cauldron in ancient times in…
• 泫weep
• 昡long day; extended; relaxed
• 眴dazzled; dizzy
• 蔙(herb)
• 鞙fine