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涮

shuàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

涮 (shuàn) means "to rinse; to trick; to fool sb". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 涮 means

1. to rinse; to swish (in water)
2. to trick; to fool sb
3. to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup (generally done at the dining table)

Words starting with 涮

• 涮羊肉shuàn yáng ròuinstant-boiled mutton; thinly sliced mutton cooked briefly in a hot pot
• 涮涮锅shuàn shuàn guōshabu-shabu (Japanese-style hot pot)
• 涮锅子shuàn guō zito eat hot pot; to cook thinly sliced meat briefly in boiling broth at the table
• 涮火锅shuàn huǒ guōsee 涮锅子

Words containing 涮

• 开涮kāi shuàn(colloquial) to make fun of; to tease; to rib

Characters that look like 涮

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

• 期qīa period of time; phase; stage
• 湖húlake
• 搁gēto place; to put aside; to shelve
• 逛guàngto stroll; to visit
• 绷bēngto draw tight; to stretch taut; to tack (with thread or pin); (bound form) embroidery hoop
• 湘Xiāngabbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China…

Where 涮 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shuàn–sī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shuàn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.