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缅

miǎn

Character Traditional 緬

What 缅 means

1. distant
2. remote
3. detailed

Other readings

缅 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• MiǎnMyanmar (formerly Burma) (abbr. for {缅甸|Miǎn diàn})

Example sentences

• 缅甸反华情绪正在增长。
  Miǎndiàn fǎn Huá qíngxù zhèngzài zēngzhǎng.
  Anti-Chinese sentiment is on the rise in Myanmar.
• 泰国在北边接壤缅甸和老挝。
  Thailand is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos.
• 缅甸民主运动领袖昂山素姬已遭拘押逾十年。
  The leader of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been in detainment for over 10 years.
• 中国与巴基斯坦、印度、阿富汗、塔吉克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、北朝鲜、老挝、越南、尼泊尔、不丹、缅甸、蒙古和俄罗斯接壤。
  Zhōngguó yǔ Bājīsītǎn, Yìndù, āfùhàn, Tǎjíkèsītǎn, Jí'ěrjísīsītǎn, Hāsàkèsītǎn, Běi Cháoxiǎn, Lǎowō, Yuènán, Níbó'ěr, Bùdān, Miǎndiàn, Měnggǔ hé éluósī jiērǎng.
  China shares borders with Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mongolia and Russia.

Words starting with 缅

• 缅甸Miǎn diànMyanmar (or Burma)
• 缅怀miǎn huáito commemorate; to recall fondly; to think of the past
• 缅元miǎn yuánkyat (currency of Myanmar)
• 缅因Miǎn yīnMaine, US state
• 缅文Miǎn wénBurmese (language, esp. written)
• 缅甸语Miǎn diàn yǔBurmese (language of Myanmar)
• 缅甸联邦Miǎn diàn Lián bāngUnion of Myanmar, official name of Burma 1998-2010
• 缅邈miǎn miǎofar; remote

Words containing 缅

• 东缅高原Dōng Miǎn gāo yuánEastern Myanmar plateau
• 沙加缅度Shā jiā miǎn duóSacramento
• 印缅斑嘴鸭Yìn Miǎn bān zuǐ yā(bird species of China) Indian spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)
• 印缅褐头雀鹛Yìn Miǎn hè tóu què méi(bird species of China) manipur fulvetta (Fulvetta manipurensis)

Characters built on 面

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

• 腼miǎnused in 腼腆
• 湎miǎnused in 沉湎

Characters that look like 缅

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

• 编biānto weave; to plait; to organize
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 辐fúspoke of a wheel
• 辍chuòto stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend
• 锉cuò(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack
• 铟yīnindium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read miǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 免to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office
• 勉to exhort; to make an effort
• 冕crown in the form of a horizontal board with hanging decorations; imperial crown
• 娩to give birth to a child
• 腼used in 腼腆
• 湎used in 沉湎
• 沔inundation; name of a river
• 渑used in 渑池
• 眄to ogle at; to squint at
• 俛to exhort
• 丏hidden from view; barrier to ward off arrows
• 偭to transgress