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瘾

yǐn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 癮

What 瘾 means

1. addiction
2. craving

Example sentences

• 确实有网瘾这回事。
  There really is such a thing as Internet addiction.
• 玛丽是咖啡成瘾者。
  Mary is addicted to coffee.
• 成瘾和过度是两回事。
  Getting addicted to something and having too much of something are two different things.
• 真希望自己能把烟瘾戒掉。
  Zhēn xīwàng zìjǐ néng bǎ yānyǐn jiè diào.
  I wish I could break the habit of smoking.
• Tatoeba会使人上瘾。
  T atoeba huì shǐ rén shàngyǐn.
  Tatoeba is addictive.
• 美国的罪犯大多是吸毒成瘾的瘾君子。
  Měiguó de zuìfàn dàduō shì xīdúchéngyǐn de yǐnjūnzǐ.
  Many criminals in the United States are addicted to drugs.

Words starting with 瘾

• 瘾头yǐn tóucraving; addiction
• 瘾君子yǐn jūn zǐopium eater; drug addict; chain smoker
• 瘾头儿yǐn tóu rerhua variant of 瘾头

Words containing 瘾

• 过瘾guò yǐnto satisfy a craving; to get a kick out of sth; gratifying
• 上瘾shàng yǐnto get into a habit; to become addicted
• 毒瘾dú yǐndrug addiction
• 烟瘾yān yǐnthe urge to smoke; tobacco addiction
• 性瘾xìng yǐnsexual addiction
• 成瘾chéng yǐnto be addicted; addiction
• 网瘾wǎng yǐnInternet addiction; net addiction; web addiction
• 猪瘾zhū yǐn(slang) craving to eat; urge to pig out
• 酒瘾jiǔ yǐnalcohol addiction
• 成瘾性chéng yǐn xìngaddictiveness
• 过干瘾guò gān yǐnto satisfy a craving with substitutes
• 吸毒成瘾xī dú chéng yǐndrug addiction
• 网络成瘾wǎng luò chéng yǐnInternet addiction; net addiction; web addiction

Characters that look like 瘾

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

• 癌áicancer; (esp.) carcinoma
• 礁jiāoreef; shoal rock
• 撼hànto shake; to vibrate
• 穗suìear of grain; tassel; fringe
• 瘸quélame
• 糠kānghusk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)

Sounds the same

Read yǐn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 饮to drink
• 引to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth
• 隐(bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-
• 尹(literary) to administer; to govern; (bound form) governor; prefect…
• 殷roll of thunder
• 听smile (archaic)
• 蚓used in 蚯蚓
• 吲used in 吲哚
• 廴"long stride" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 54), occurring in 建, 延, 廷 etc
• 檃tool used for shaping wood (old)
• 櫽tool used for shaping wood (old); old variant of 檃
• 磤(onomatopoeia) sound of thunder