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籁

lài

Character Traditional 籟

What 籁 means

1. a sound
2. a noise
3. musical pipe with 3 reeds

Words containing 籁

• 天籁tiān làisounds of nature
• 万籁俱寂wàn lài jù jì(idiom) dead silent
• 天籁之音tiān lài zhī yīnextraordinarily beautiful music
• 万籁无声wàn lài wú shēngsee 万籁俱寂

Characters built on 赖

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

• 濑làiname of a river; rushing of water
• 癞làiscabies; skin disease

Characters that look like 籁

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

• 籍jí(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 藤téngrattan; cane; vine
• 蘑mómushroom
• 藩fānfence; hedge; (literary) screen; barrier; vassal state
• 簸bǒto winnow; to toss up and down
• 藕ǒuroot of lotus

Sounds the same

Read lài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 赖to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad
• 濑name of a river; rushing of water
• 癞scabies; skin disease
• 睐to glance; to look askance at
• 赉to bestow; to confer
• 藾(fragrant labiate plant)