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汶

Wèn

Character

What 汶 means

1. Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川)
2. classical name of river in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齐国

Words starting with 汶

• 汶上Wèn shàngWenshang County in Jining 济宁; classically, upper reaches of Wen River in Shandong, used…
• 汶莱Wèn lái(Taiwan) Brunei
• 汶上县Wèn shàng XiànWenshang, a county in Jining City 济宁市
• 汶川县Wèn chuān XiànWenchuan, a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿坝藏族羌族自治州
• 汶川地震Wèn chuān Dì zhènGreat Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
• 汶川大地震Wèn chuān Dà dì zhènGreat Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
• 汶川Wèn chuānsee 汶川县

Words containing 汶

• 鲁汶Lǔ wènLeuven (a town in Belgium famous for its university)
• 帝汶岛Dì wèn DǎoTimor island
• 帝汶海Dì wèn HǎiTimor Sea
• 东帝汶Dōng Dì wènTimor-Leste (East Timor)
• 大汶口文化Dà wèn kǒu wén huàDawenkou culture (c. 4100-2600 BC), Neolithic culture based in today's Shandong area 山东
• 茂汶县Mào wèn xiànMaowen county in Sichuan, home of the Qiang people 羌族

Characters built on 文

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

• 纹wénline; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
• 坟féngrave; tomb; embankment
• 蚊wénmosquito
• 紊wěninvolved; tangled; disorderly
• 雯wénmulticolored clouds
• 炆wén(Cantonese) to simmer; to cook over a slow fire

Characters that look like 汶

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

• 欧ōuohm (abbr. for 欧姆; euro (abbr. for 欧元; used in transliteration
• 波bōwave; ripple; storm
• 坎kǎnpit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦
• 汰tàito discard; to eliminate
• 汝rǔthou
• 佽cìnimble; to help

Sounds the same

Read Wèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 问to ask; to inquire
• 璺a crack (in porcelain, glassware etc)
• 妏(used in female names)
• 抆to wipe
• 絻(old) mourning apparel
• 揾(literary) to wipe away (tears); to press with one's fingers; to soak
• 免old variant of 絻