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湍

tuān

Character

What 湍 means

1. to rush (of water)

Example sentences

• 这条河水流湍急。
  Zhè tiáo hé shuǐliú tuānjí.
  This river flows quickly.

Words starting with 湍

• 湍急tuān jírapid (flow of water)
• 湍流tuān liúturbulence

Characters built on 耑

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

• 端duān(bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet; (bound form) upright; proper
• 喘chuǎnto gasp; to pant; asthma
• 颛zhuāngood; simple
• 遄chuánto hurry; to go to and fro

Characters that look like 湍

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

• 满mǎnto fill; full; filled
• 瑞ruìlucky; auspicious; propitious
• 逮dài(literary) to reach; used in 逮捕
• 滤lǜto strain; to filter
• 漓lípattering (of rain); seep through
• 惴zhuìanxious; worried

Sounds the same

Read tuān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 圕library (contracted form of 图书馆
• 煓(literary) (of a fire) lively; blazing