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羌

qiāng

Character

What 羌 means

1. muntjac
2. grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)

Other readings

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

• Qiāngsurname Qiang; Qiang ethnic group
• qiāngvariant of {羌|qiāng}

Words starting with 羌

• 羌族Qiāng zúQiang ethnic group
• 羌活qiāng huóNotopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum)
• 羌笛Qiāng díQiang flute
• 羌鹫qiāng jiùsea eagle
• 羌无故实qiāng wú gù shíto have no basis in fact (idiom)

Words containing 羌

• 山羌shān qiāng(zoology) Reeves's muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi); Chinese muntjac
• 若羌县Ruò qiāng XiànRuoqiang, a county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州
• 叶尔羌河Yè ěr qiāng HéYarkant River in Xinjiang
• 北川羌族自治县Běi chuān Qiāng zú Zì zhì xiànBeichuan Qiang Autonomous County, in Mianyang City 绵阳市
• 阿坝藏族羌族自治州Ā bà Zàng zú Qiāng zú Zì zhì zhōuNgawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan Province 四川省
• 若羌Ruò qiāngsee 若羌县

Characters that look like 羌

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

• 果guǒfruit; result; resolute
• 克kèto be able to; to subdue; to restrain
• 吴Wúsurname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai…
• 秃tūbald (lacking hair or feathers); barren; bare; denuded; blunt (lacking a point)
• 芜wúovergrown with weeds
• 旯láused in 旮旯

Sounds the same

Read qiāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 枪gun; firearm; rifle
• 腔(bound form) cavity; (bound form) speech; talk; tune
• 呛to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)
• 将to desire; to invite; to request
• 抢(literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage)…
• 跄walk rapidly
• 锵tinkling of small bells
• 戕to kill; to injure; Taiwan pr. qiáng
• 戗contrary; pushing against; bump
• 蜣dung beetle
• 镪sulfuric acid
• 锖the color of a mineral