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磐

pán

Character

What 磐 means

1. firm
2. stable
3. rock

Words starting with 磐

• 磐石pán shíboulder
• 磐安县Pán ān XiànPan'an, a county in Jinhua City 金华市
• 磐石市Pán shí ShìPanshi, a county-level city in Jilin City 吉林市
• 磐安Pán ānsee 磐安县

Words containing 磐

• 坚如磐石jiān rú pán shísolid as a boulder (idiom); absolutely secure; rock-firm and unyielding
• 坚若磐石jiān ruò pán shírock-solid
• 安如磐石ān rú pán shías solid as rock (idiom); as sure as houses
• 涅磐niè pánvariant of 涅槃

Characters built on 般

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

• 搬bānto move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift
• 槃pánvariant of 盘; wooden tray
• 瘢bānmark; scar on the skin

Characters that look like 磐

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…
• 餐cānmeal; to eat; classifier for meals
• 暨jì(literary) and; as well as; (literary) up to; as far as (as in 暨今
• 赘zhuì(bound form) superfluous; (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's…
• 螯áochela; nippers; claw; pincers (of crabs, lobsters, scorpions etc)
• 獒áo(bound form) mastiff

Sounds the same

Read pán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 盘tray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices; (computing; bound form) disk
• 蟠to coil
• 爿classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc…
• 胖healthy; at ease
• 蹒used in 蹒跚; Taiwan pr. mán
• 縏small bag; sack
• 磻name of a river in Shaanxi
• 媻to move
• 幋large scarf
• 柈plate
• 鞶large belt
• 湴to wade through water or mud