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窜

cuàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 竄

窜 (cuàn) means "to flee; to scuttle; to exile or banish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 窜 means

1. to flee
2. to scuttle
3. to exile or banish
4. to amend or edit

Example sentences

• 小偷迅速地窜入了人群。
  Xiǎotōu xùnsù de cuàn rù le rénqún.
  The thief whipped out into the crowd.

Words starting with 窜

• 窜升cuàn shēngto rise rapidly; to shoot up
• 窜扰cuàn rǎoto invade and harass
• 窜改cuàn gǎito alter; to modify; to change
• 窜犯cuàn fànto raid; an intrusion (of the enemy, or bandit groups)
• 窜稀cuàn xī(colloquial) to have diarrhea
• 窜红cuàn hóngto become suddenly popular; suddenly all the rage
• 窜访cuàn fǎng(derog.) (of a prominent figure) to visit (another country)…
• 窜逃cuàn táoto flee in disorder; to scurry off
• 窜踞cuàn jùto flee in disorder and encamp somewhere

Words containing 窜

• 逃窜táo cuànto run away; to flee in disarray
• 流窜liú cuànto roam all over the place; to go into every nook and corner; to infiltrate…
• 乱窜luàn cuànto flee in disarray; to scatter
• 奔窜bēn cuàn(of people or animals) to flee helter-skelter; to scatter…
• 点窜diǎn cuànto reword; to edit a text
• 鼠窜shǔ cuànto scamper off; to scurry off like a frightened rat
• 流窜犯liú cuàn fàncriminal at large
• 抱头鼠窜bào tóu shǔ cuànto cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously
• 逃窜无踪táo cuàn wú zōngto disperse and flee, leaving no trace

Characters that look like 窜

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

• 商shāngcommerce; merchant; dealer
• 寓yù(bound form) to reside; to inhabit; (bound form) residence; dwelling…
• 窟kūcave; hole
• 窑yáokiln; oven; coal pit
• 窖jiàocellar; to store in a cellar
• 挲sāused in 摩挲

Sounds the same

Read cuàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 爨cooking-stove; to cook
• 篡to seize; to usurp
• 窾to conceal; to hide

Where 窜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cì–dā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cuàn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.