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缆

lǎn

Character Traditional 纜

What 缆 means

1. cable
2. hawser
3. to moor

Example sentences

• 拔下所有的电缆。
  Unplug all the cables.

Words starting with 缆

• 缆车lǎn chēcable car
• 缆索lǎn suǒcable; hawser; mooring rope
• 缆线lǎn xiàncable
• 缆绳lǎn shéngcable; hawser; mooring rope
• 缆索吊椅lǎn suǒ diào yǐski-lift
• 缆桩lǎn zhuāngmooring bollard

Words containing 缆

• 电缆diàn lǎn(electric) cable
• 光缆guāng lǎnoptical cable
• 线缆xiàn lǎncable; wire; cord (computer)
• 船缆chuán lǎnship's hawser; rigging
• 解缆jiě lǎnto untie a mooring rope
• 钢缆gāng lǎnsteel cable; wire cable; steel hawser
• 电缆塔diàn lǎn tǎa pylon (for electric power line)
• 光纤电缆guāng xiān diàn lǎnoptical fiber; optical cable
• 同轴电缆tóng zhóu diàn lǎncoaxial cable
• 带状电缆dài zhuàng diàn lǎnribbon cable
• 电缆接头diàn lǎn jiē tóucable gland
• 电缆调制解调器diàn lǎn tiáo zhì jiě tiáo qìcable modem

Characters built on 览

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

• 揽lǎnto monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc)
• 榄lǎn(bound form) olive

Characters that look like 缆

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

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 缓huǎnslow; unhurried; sluggish
• 烷wánalkane
• 榄lǎn(bound form) olive
• 琅lángjade-like stone; clean and white; tinkling of pendants
• 惺xīng(literary) to come to one's senses; to awaken; (literary) astute; sharp-witted

Sounds the same

Read lǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 懒lazy
• 览to look at; to view; to read
• 揽to monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc)
• 榄(bound form) olive
• 𡒄disappointed
• 漤to soak (fruits) in hot water or limewater to remove astringent taste…
• 罱a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net…
• 灠variant of 漤
• 㨫variant of 擥
• 孄old variant of 懒
• 孏old variant of 懒
• 擥variant of 揽