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漩

xuán

Character

What 漩 means

1. whirlpool
2. eddy
3. also pr. xuàn

Example sentences

• 水从喷泉中涌出，在溪流中向下流，在溪涧中奔走，在池塘中安定，在河流中顺势流，在漩涡中回旋，并形成沼泽。
  Water springs out of a fountain, flows downwards in a brook, runs in a beck, stands in a pond, glides in the stream, is whirled about in a whirlpool and causes fens.

Words starting with 漩

• 漩涡xuán wōwhirlpool; eddy; vortex

Words containing 漩

• 泡漩pào xuáneddy; whirlpool

Characters built on 旋

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

• 璇xuán(jade)
• 镟xuànto shape on a lathe; to peel with a knife; to turn in (a screw)

Characters that look like 漩

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

• 摄shè(bound form) to take in; to absorb; to assimilate; to capture (video or still images)…
• 嫌xiánto dislike; suspicion; resentment
• 趟tàngclassifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip
• 撅juēto protrude; to stick out; to pout (also written 噘)
• 璇xuán(jade)
• 搡sǎngto push forcefully; to shove

Sounds the same

Read xuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 旋to revolve; a loop; a circle
• 悬to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement
• 玄black; mysterious
• 璇(jade)
• 琁beautiful jade; star
• 玹jadelike precious stone; jade-colored
• 嫙beautiful; fine
• 暶(literary) bright; (literary) beautiful; good-looking
• 㻽variant of 璇; also pr. suì
• 伭variant of 玄; variant of 悬