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瑱

tiàn

Character

What 瑱 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

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

• zhènjade weight

Characters built on 真

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

• 填tiánto fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in
• 颠diāntop (of the head); apex; to fall forwards
• 滇Diānshort name for Yunnan 云南
• 阗tiánfill up; rumbling sound

Sounds the same

Read tiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 掭to smooth (a brush) against the inkstone (after dipping it in ink)

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• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tiàn correctly.
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