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煅

duàn

Character

What 煅 means

1. to calcine
2. variant of {锻|duàn}

Words starting with 煅

• 煅烧duàn shāoto calcine (purify by heating)
• 煅炉duàn lúforge; fig. extremely hot environment
• 煅石膏duàn shí gāoplaster of Paris; calcined gypsum

Words containing 煅

• 暗煅àn duànsealed pot calcination (TCM)

Characters built on 段

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

• 锻duànto forge; to discipline; wrought
• 缎duànsatin
• 椴duànChinese linden (Tilia chinensis)

Characters that look like 煅

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

• 滋zīto grow; to nourish; to increase
• 嘛máused in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽; (Taiwan; colloquial) what?
• 赎shúto redeem; to ransom
• 逾yúto exceed; to go beyond; to transcend
• 跪guìto kneel
• 槟bīnused in 槟子

Sounds the same

Read duàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 段paragraph; section; segment
• 锻to forge; to discipline; wrought
• 断to break; to snap; to cut off
• 缎satin
• 椴Chinese linden (Tilia chinensis)
• 腶dried meat
• 簖bamboo fish trap
• 塅large area of flat terrain (used in place names)
• 毈infertile egg
• 碫coarse stone (used for whetstone)