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潺

chán

Character

What 潺 means

1. flow
2. trickle (of water)

Example sentences

• 溪流潺潺，催我入眠。
  Xīliú chánchán, cuī wǒ rùmián.
  The murmur of the brook lulls me to sleep.

Words starting with 潺

• 潺潺chán chánmurmur; babble (sound of water)

Characters that look like 潺

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

• 旗qíflag; variant of 旗
• 熄xīto extinguish; to put out (fire); to quench
• 遴lín(literary) to select
• 蕊ruǐstamen; pistil
• 潇xiāo(of water) deep and clear
• 撂liàoto put down; to leave behind; to throw or knock down

Sounds the same

Read chán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 缠to wind around; to wrap round; to coil
• 馋gluttonous; greedy; to have a craving
• 禅dhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 澶still (as of water); still water
• 蝉cicada
• 单used in 单于
• 婵used in 婵娟
• 蟾toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking)…
• 谗to slander; to defame; to misrepresent
• 巉(literary) steep; rugged; jagged; precipitous
• 毚cunning; artful
• 磛cliff; peak