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簖

duàn

Character Traditional 籪

What 簖 means

1. bamboo fish trap

Characters built on 竹

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

• 管guǎnto take care (of); to control; to manage
• 篆zhuànseal (of office); seal script (a calligraphic style); the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆
• 筌quánbamboo fish trap
• 筦Guǎnsurname Guan

Sounds the same

Read duàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 段paragraph; section; segment
• 锻to forge; to discipline; wrought
• 断to break; to snap; to cut off
• 缎satin
• 煅to calcine; variant of 锻
• 椴Chinese linden (Tilia chinensis)
• 腶dried meat
• 塅large area of flat terrain (used in place names)
• 毈infertile egg
• 碫coarse stone (used for whetstone)