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潢

huáng

Character

What 潢 means

1. dye paper
2. lake
3. pond
4. mount scroll

Example sentences

• 他们的房子正在装潢。
  Tāmen de fángzi zhèngzài zhuānghuáng.
  Their house is being remodeled.

Words starting with 潢

• 潢川县Huáng chuān XiànHuangchuan, a county in Xinyang City 信阳市
• 潢川Huáng chuānsee 潢川县

Words containing 潢

• 装潢zhuāng huángto mount (a picture); to dress; to adorn
• 室内装潢shì nèi zhuāng huánginterior decorating
• 断港绝潢duàn gǎng jué huángto be unable to continue; to come to a dead end (idiom)

Characters built on 黄

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

• 簧huángreed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
• 磺huángsulfur
• 璜huángsemicircular jade ornament
• 蟥huánghorse-leech

Characters that look like 潢

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

• 演yǎnto perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out…
• 滴dīto drip; to let drip; to apply (eye drops etc); (bound form) a drop (of liquid)
• 潘pān(archaic) water in which rice has been washed; (Taiwan) kitchen waste…
• 溜liūto slip away; to escape in stealth; to skate
• 遛liùto stroll; to walk (an animal)
• 漕cáoto transport (esp. grain) by water; (literary) watercourse; canal

Sounds the same

Read huáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 黄yellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 皇emperor; old variant of 惶
• 煌brilliant
• 凰used in 凤凰
• 簧reed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
• 惶(bound form) fear; dread; anxiety; trepidation
• 湟name of a river
• 遑leisure
• 蝗locust
• 磺sulfur
• 璜semicircular jade ornament
• 徨used in 彷徨