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盥

guàn

Character

What 盥 means

1. to wash (especially hands)

Words starting with 盥

• 盥洗室guàn xǐ shìtoilet; washroom; bathroom
• 盥洗guàn xǐto wash up; to freshen up
• 盥洗盆guàn xǐ pénwashbowl

Words containing 盥

• 濯盥zhuó guànto wash oneself

Characters built on 水

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

• 泉quánspring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
• 汆cuānquick-boil; to boil for a short time

Characters that look like 盥

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

• 整zhěng(bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole…
• 篮lánbasket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)
• 豫yùhappy; carefree; at one's ease
• 濮Púname of a river; surname Pu
• 畿jīterritory around the capital
• 圜huáncircle; encircle

Sounds the same

Read guàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惯accustomed to; used to; indulge
• 冠to put on a hat; to be first; to dub
• 贯to pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together
• 灌to irrigate; to pour; to install (software)
• 罐can; jar; pot
• 观Taoist monastery; palace gate watchtower; platform
• 掼to fling; to fall; to wear
• 鹳crane; stork
• 涫(classical) to boil
• 祼pour out libation
• 瓘jade used for making goblets
• 卝two bunches of hair on a child