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tiàn

Character

What means

  1. literaryjade pendants attached to an official hat and hanging beside each ear, symbolizing refusal to listen to malicious talk
  2. literaryto fill up

Other readings

is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

Characters built on

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

Sounds the same

Read tiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

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