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烬

jìn

Character Traditional 燼

What 烬 means

1. bound formcinders; ashes

Example sentences

• 房子烧成了灰烬。
  The house burnt to ashes.
• 房子被大火烧成了灰烬。
  Fángzi bèi dàhuǒ shāo chéngle huījìn.
  The fire reduced the house to ashes.
• 我们的学校被烧成了灰烬。
  Wǒmen de xuéxiào bèi shāo chéngle huījìn.
  Our school was reduced to ashes.
• 那场大火把整个小镇烧成了灰烬。
  Nà chǎng dàhuǒ bǎ zhěnggè xiǎozhèn shāo chéngle huījìn.
  That fire burned the entire town to ashes.
• 消防员还没有赶到，那两幢大厦就已经烧成灰烬了。
  Xiāofángyuán hái méiyǒu gǎndào, nà liǎng zhuàng dàshà jiù yǐjīng shāo chéng huījìn le.
  Before the firemen were able to arrive, both buildings burned down.

Words containing 烬

• 灰烬huī jìnashes
• 余烬yú jìnember
• 骨烬gǔ jìnbones and ashes; remains (after Buddhist cremation)

Characters built on 尽

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

• 荩jìnArthraxon ciliare; loyal
• 赆jìnfarewell presents

Characters that look like 烬

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

• 烂lànsoft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose
• 翅chì(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
• 豚túnsuckling pig
• 娠shēnpregnant
• 姝shūpretty woman
• 脓nóngpus

Sounds the same

Read jìn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 进to go forward; to advance; to go in
• 近near; close to; approximately
• 尽to use up; to exhaust; to end
• 禁to prohibit; to forbid
• 劲strength; energy; enthusiasm
• 浸to immerse; to soak; to steep
• 晋to move forward; to promote; to advance
• 靳martingale; stingy
• 妗wife of mother's brother
• 觐(history) to have an audience with the Emperor
• 噤unable to speak; silent
• 缙red silk