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苌

cháng

Character Traditional 萇

What 苌 means

1. plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)

Other readings

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

• Chángsurname Chang

Words starting with 苌

• 苌楚cháng chǔplant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit…

Characters built on 长

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

• 张zhāngto open up; to spread; sheet of paper
• 帐zhàng(bound form) curtain; tent; canopy; variant of 账
• 账zhàngaccount; bill; debt
• 胀zhàngto swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated
• 怅chàngregretful; upset; despairing; depressed
• 伥chāng(bound form) ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others

Sounds the same

Read cháng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 长long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte
• 常always; ever; often
• 尝to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
• 偿to repay; to compensate for; to recompense
• 肠intestines
• 倘used in 倘佯
• 裳lower garment; skirts; petticoats
• 场threshing floor; classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout
• 徜sit cross-legged; walk back and forth
• 嫦used in 嫦娥; used in female given names
• 镸"long" or "to grow" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 168)
• 鲿Bagridae (catfish family)