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绀

gàn

Character Traditional 紺

What 绀 means

1. violet or purple

Example sentences

• 将血压带 (或止血带) 套在手臂上，逐渐增加压力，直到前臂发绀，桡动脉搏动几乎消失。
  A blood-pressure band, or tourniquet, is placed about the arm, and the pressure increased until the forearm becomes cyanosed and the radial pulse is almost obliterated.

Words containing 绀

• 发绀fā gàncyanosis (blue skin due to lack of oxygen in blood)

Characters built on 甘

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

• 柑gānlarge tangerine
• 苷gānlicorice; glycoside
• 坩gāncrucible
• 酣hānintoxicated
• 邯hánused in 邯郸
• 泔gānslop from rinsing rice
• 疳gān(TCM) chronic pediatric malnutrition disorder
• 蚶hānsmall clam (Arca inflata)

Sounds the same

Read gàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 干tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage
• 淦(archaic) water leaking into a boat; historically, the name of a river in Jiangxi…
• 旰sunset; evening
• 榦tree trunk
• 倝dawn (archaic)
• 檊Chinese mulberry; sandalwood
• 骭shinbone
• 赣variant of 赣