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甸

diàn

Character

What 甸 means

1. suburbs or outskirts
2. one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China
3. official in charge of fields (old)

Other readings

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

• Diànsurname Dian

Example sentences

• 木质家具沉甸甸的。
  Wooden furniture is heavy.
• 缅甸反华情绪正在增长。
  Miǎndiàn fǎn Huá qíngxù zhèngzài zēngzhǎng.
  Anti-Chinese sentiment is on the rise in Myanmar.
• 泰国在北边接壤缅甸和老挝。
  Thailand is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos.
• 缅甸民主运动领袖昂山素姬已遭拘押逾十年。
  The leader of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been in detainment for over 10 years.
• 中国与巴基斯坦、印度、阿富汗、塔吉克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、北朝鲜、老挝、越南、尼泊尔、不丹、缅甸、蒙古和俄罗斯接壤。
  Zhōngguó yǔ Bājīsītǎn, Yìndù, āfùhàn, Tǎjíkèsītǎn, Jí'ěrjísīsītǎn, Hāsàkèsītǎn, Běi Cháoxiǎn, Lǎowō, Yuènán, Níbó'ěr, Bùdān, Miǎndiàn, Měnggǔ hé éluósī jiērǎng.
  China shares borders with Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mongolia and Russia.

Words containing 甸

• 缅甸Miǎn diànMyanmar (or Burma)
• 沉甸甸chén diàn diànheavy
• 伊甸园Yī diàn yuánGarden of Eden
• 草甸cǎo diànmeadow
• 基甸Jī diànGideon (name, from Judges 6:11 onward); also written 吉迪恩
• 缅甸语Miǎn diàn yǔBurmese (language of Myanmar)
• 缅甸联邦Miǎn diàn Lián bāngUnion of Myanmar, official name of Burma 1998-2010
• 施甸县Shī diàn XiànShidian, a county in Baoshan City 保山市
• 林甸县Lín diàn XiànLindian, a county in Daqing City 大庆市
• 罗甸县Luó diàn XiànLuodian, a county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔南布依族苗族自治州
• 鲁甸县Lǔ diàn XiànLudian, a county in Zhaotong City 昭通市
• 蔡甸区Cài diàn QūCaidian, a district of Wuhan City 武汉市
• 坤甸Kūn diànPontianak city, capital of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
• 曹妃甸区Cáo fēi diàn QūCaofeidian, a district of Tangshan City 唐山市
• 桦甸市Huà diàn ShìHuadian, a county-level city in Jilin City 吉林市
• 宽甸满族自治县Kuān diàn Mǎn zú Zì zhì xiànKuandian Manchu Autonomous County, in Dandong City 丹东市
• 寻甸回族彝族自治县Xún diàn Huí zú Yí zú Zì zhì xiànXundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County, in Kunming City 昆明市
• 宽甸Kuān diànsee 宽甸满族自治县
• 寻甸Xún diànsee 寻甸回族彝族自治县
• 施甸Shī diànsee 施甸县
• 林甸Lín diànsee 林甸县
• 罗甸Luó diànsee 罗甸县
• 鲁甸Lǔ diànsee 鲁甸县
• 宽甸县Kuān diàn Xiànsee 宽甸满族自治县

Characters that look like 甸

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

• 轮lúnwheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate
• 绍shàoto continue; to carry on
• 招zhāoto recruit; to provoke; to beckon
• 拓tuòto expand; to push sth with the hand; to develop
• 旬xún(bound form) ten-day period; one of the three ten-day divisions of a month…
• 刽guìto amputate; to cut off; also pr. kuài

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)
• 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
• 玷blemish; disgrace; flaw in jade