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筼

yún

Character Traditional 篔

What 筼 means

1. used in {筼筜|yún dāng}

Words starting with 筼

• 筼筜yún dāngspecies of tall bamboo
• 筼筜湖Yún dāng HúYundang or Yuandang Lake in Xiamen

Characters built on 员

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

• 损sǔn(bound form) to decrease; to diminish; (bound form) to harm; to damage…
• 勋xūn(bound form) meritorious accomplishment
• 陨yǔn(bound form) to fall from the sky; variant of 殒
• 殒yǔn(literary) to perish; to die
• 郧yúnname of a feudal state
• 埙xūnocarina; wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes

Sounds the same

Read yún, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 云(classical) to say
• 匀even; well-distributed; uniform
• 芸common rue (Ruta graveolens)…
• 昀sun light; used in personal name
• 筠skin of bamboo
• 纭confused; numerous
• 耘to weed
• 郧name of a feudal state
• 鋆gold
• 澐river waves
• 涢(name of a river in Hebei)
• 𤈶(yellow color)

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yún correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.