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炆

wén

Character

What 炆 means

1. (Cantonese) to simmer
2. to cook over a slow fire

Words containing 炆

• 朱允炆Zhū Yǔn wénZhu Yuanwen, personal name of second Ming Emperor Jianwen 建文

Characters built on 文

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

• 汶WènWen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川); classical name of river in Shandong, used to…
• 纹wénline; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
• 坟féngrave; tomb; embankment
• 蚊wénmosquito
• 紊wěninvolved; tangled; disorderly
• 雯wénmulticolored clouds

Sounds the same

Read wén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 文language; culture; writing
• 闻to hear; news; well-known
• 纹line; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
• 雯multicolored clouds
• 蚊mosquito
• 玟veins in jade
• 阌wen xiang, Henan province
• 閺to look down
• 珳old variant of 玟
• 蚉old variant of 蚊