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筌

quán

Character

What 筌 means

1. bamboo fish trap

Words containing 筌

• 得鱼忘筌dé yú wàng quánlit. catch fish then forget the trap (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子

Characters built on 全

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

• 栓shuānbottle stopper; plug; (gun) bolt
• 诠quánto explain; to comment; to annotate
• 痊quánto recover (from illness)
• 铨quánto estimate; to select
• 拴shuānto tie up
• 荃quán(fragrant plant)

Sounds the same

Read quán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 全all; whole; entire
• 泉spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
• 权authority; power; right
• 拳fist; boxing
• 蜷to curl up (like a scroll); to huddle; Melania libertina
• 荃(fragrant plant)
• 诠to explain; to comment; to annotate
• 鬈to curl; curled
• 痊to recover (from illness)
• 醛aldehyde
• 铨to estimate; to select
• 颧(bound form) cheekbone