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灌

guàn

HSK 6 Character

What 灌 means

1. to irrigate
2. to pour
3. to install (software)
4. to record (music)

Example sentences

• 请把水瓶灌满。
  Please fill this water bottle.
• 他对她大灌迷汤。
  He showered her with compliments.
• 酒是灌入瓶中的诗。
  Wine is poetry in bottles.
• 他把瓶子灌满了水。
  He filled the bottle with water.
• 你见过灌肠的做法吗？
  Nǐ jiànguo guàncháng de zuòfǎ ma?
  Have you ever seen sausage being made?
• 请用开水把茶壶灌满。
  Qǐng yòng kāishuǐ bǎ cháhú guàn mǎn.
  Please fill the teapot with boiling water.

Words starting with 灌

• 灌溉guàn gàito irrigate
• 灌输guàn shūto imbue with; to inculcate; to instill into
• 灌木guàn mùbush; shrub
• 灌木丛guàn mù cóngshrub; shrubbery
• 灌肠guàn chángenema; to give an enema
• 灌区guàn qūarea under irrigation
• 灌水guàn shuǐto irrigate; to pour water into; to inject water into meat to increase its weight…
• 灌注guàn zhùto pour or inject (a liquid or substance) into sth…
• 灌渠guàn qúirrigation channel
• 灌站guàn zhànpumping station in irrigation system
• 灌制guàn zhìto record (songs, albums, CDs etc); to cast (plaster, metal etc) into a mold
• 灌酒guàn jiǔto force sb to drink alcohol
• 灌醉guàn zuìto fuddle; to befuddle; to inebriate
• 灌录guàn lùto record (audio)
• 灌南县Guàn nán XiànGuannan, a county in Lianyungang City 连云港市
• 灌木林guàn mù línshrubbery; low wood
• 灌米汤guàn mǐ tāngto flatter; to butter sb up
• 灌阳县Guàn yáng XiànGuanyang, a county in Guilin City 桂林市
• 灌云县Guàn yún XiànGuanyun, a county in Lianyungang City 连云港市
• 灌迷魂汤guàn mí hún tāngto butter sb up; to try to impress sb
• 灌篮guàn lánslam dunk
• 灌浆guàn jiānggrouting; (of grain) to be in the milk; to form a vesicle (medicine)
• 灌丛guàn cóngscrub; shrubland; undergrowth
• 灌铅guàn qiānto weight sth with lead; (of a die) loaded; to pour molten lead into the mouth…

Words containing 灌

• 浇灌jiāo guànto water; to irrigate
• 倒灌dào guànto flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc); reverse flow…
• 喷灌pēn guànsprinkler irrigation
• 春灌chūn guànspring irrigation
• 沃灌wò guànto irrigate; to wash with water
• 硬灌yìng guànto force feed
• 秋灌qiū guànautumn irrigation
• 满堂灌mǎn táng guàncramming (as a teaching method); rote learning
• 电灌站diàn guàn zhànelectric pumping station in irrigation system
• 海水倒灌hǎi shuǐ dào guànsaltwater intrusion
• 红灌木茶hóng guàn mù chárooibos tea
• 滴灌dī guànto drip irrigate
• 淹灌yān guànbasin irrigation (e.g. paddy fields)
• 地面灌溉dì miàn guàn gàisurface irrigation
• 戳心灌髓chuō xīn guàn suǐ(idiom) to strike at one's core; to deeply hurt sb
• 淤灌yū guànto warp (fertilize land by flooding)
• 醍醐灌顶tí hú guàn dǐnglit. to anoint your head with the purest cream (idiom)…
• 全神灌注quán shén guàn zhùvariant of 全神贯注

Characters built on 雚

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

• 罐guàncan; jar; pot
• 獾huānbadger
• 鹳guàncrane; stork
• 颧quán(bound form) cheekbone

Characters that look like 灌

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

• 壤rǎng(bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天
• 靡míto waste (money)
• 攘rǎng(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…
• 麝shèmusk deer (Moschus moschiferus); also called 香獐子
• 獾huānbadger
• 瀛yíngocean

Sounds the same

Read guàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惯accustomed to; used to; indulge
• 冠to put on a hat; to be first; to dub
• 贯to pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together
• 罐can; jar; pot
• 观Taoist monastery; palace gate watchtower; platform
• 掼to fling; to fall; to wear
• 盥to wash (especially hands)
• 鹳crane; stork
• 涫(classical) to boil
• 祼pour out libation
• 瓘jade used for making goblets
• 卝two bunches of hair on a child