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汛

xùn

Character

What 汛 means

1. high water
2. flood
3. to sprinkle water

Words starting with 汛

• 汛情xùn qíngwater levels during the flood season
• 汛期xùn qīflood season

Words containing 汛

• 防汛fáng xùnflood control; anti-flood (precautions)
• 伏汛fú xùnsummer flood
• 凌汛líng xùnice-jam flood (arising when river downstream freezes more than upstream)
• 春汛chūn xùnspring flood
• 桃汛táo xùnspring flood (at peach-blossom time)
• 渔汛yú xùnfishing season
• 潮汛cháo xùnspring tide
• 秋汛qiū xùnautumn flood
• 桃花汛táo huā xùnspring flood (at peach-blossom time)
• 洪汛期hóng xùn qīflood season
• 渔汛期yú xùn qīfishing season
• 鱼汛yú xùnvariant of 渔汛
• 鱼汛期yú xùn qīvariant of 渔汛期

Characters built on 卂

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

• 讯xùn(bound form) to ask; to inquire; (bound form) to interrogate; to question…
• 迅xùnrapid; fast

Characters that look like 汛

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

• 返fǎnto return (to)
• 泛fàn(bound form) general; non-specific; extensive
• 沃wòfertile; rich; to irrigate
• 沉chénto submerge; to immerse; to sink
• 帆fānsail; Taiwan pr. fán, except 帆布
• 夙sùmorning; early; long-held

Sounds the same

Read xùn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 训to teach; to train; to admonish; (bound form) instruction (from superiors); teachings…
• 迅rapid; fast
• 讯(bound form) to ask; to inquire; (bound form) to interrogate; to question…
• 逊to abdicate; modest; yielding
• 驯to attain gradually; to tame; Taiwan pr. xún
• 巽to obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦; ☴
• 殉to be buried with the dead; to die for a cause
• 浚used in 浚县
• 徇to give in to; to be swayed by (personal considerations etc); Taiwan pr. xún
• 蕈mold; mushroom
• 侚(literary) quick; variant of 殉
• 潠spurt out of the mouth