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玷

diàn

Character

What 玷 means

1. blemish
2. disgrace
3. flaw in jade

Example sentences

• 州长最近的丑闻玷污了她原本完美无瑕的政绩。
  The governor's recent scandal was a blight on her otherwise pristine track record.

Words starting with 玷

• 玷污diàn wūto stain; to sully; to tarnish
• 玷辱diàn rǔto dishonor; to disgrace

Words containing 玷

• 瑕玷xiá diànblemish; flaw

Characters built on 占

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

• 店diàninn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store
• 点diǎnto touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list)…
• 黏niánsticky; glutinous; (Taiwan) to adhere; to stick on; to glue
• 扂diàndoor latch
• 拈niānto nip; to grasp with the fingers; to fiddle with
• 鲇niánsheatfish (Parasilurus asotus); oriental catfish; see also 鲶
• 坫diànstand for goblets

Characters that look like 玷

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

• 站zhànstation; to stand; to halt
• 骇hàito astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)
• 拮jiéantagonistic; laboring hard; pressed
• 拈niānto nip; to grasp with the fingers; to fiddle with
• 珐fàused in 珐琅
• 砝fǎused in 砝码

Sounds the same

Read diàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 店inn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store
• 电lightning; electricity; electric (bound form)
• 殿palace hall
• 垫pad; cushion; mat
• 奠to fix; to settle; a libation to the dead
• 惦to think of; to remember; to miss
• 淀(bound form) shallow lake (usu. in place names)
• 甸suburbs or outskirts; one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic…
• 靛indigo pigment
• 佃to rent farmland from a landlord
• 钿to inlay with gold, silver etc; ancient inlaid ornament shaped as a flower
• 扂door latch