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藓

xiǎn

Character Traditional 蘚

What 藓 means

1. moss
2. lichen
3. moss on damp walls
4. used erroneously for 苏

Example sentences

• 让苔藓盖上我的坟墓吧。
  Ràng táixiǎn gàishang wǒ de fénmù ba.
  Let moss cover my grave.

Words starting with 藓

• 藓苔xiǎn táimoss

Words containing 藓

• 苔藓tái xiǎnmoss
• 泥炭藓ní tàn xiǎnmatted sphagnum moss (Sphagnum palustre)
• 赤藓醇chì xiǎn chúnerythritol, a sugar alcohol
• 赤藓糖醇chì xiǎn táng chúnerythritol, a sugar alcohol

Characters that look like 藓

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

• 薪xīn(literary) firewood; fuel; (bound form) salary
• 爵juéancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle; nobility
• 藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
• 薛xuēwormwood like grass (classical)
• 藕ǒuroot of lotus
• 鬃zōngbristles; horse's mane

Sounds the same

Read xiǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 险danger; dangerous; rugged
• 显to make visible; to reveal; prominent
• 洗used in 洗马
• 鲜few; rare
• 铣shining metal; (old) the 16th of the month (abbreviation used in telegrams)
• 狝to hunt in autumn (archaic)
• 蚬basket clam (clam of family Corbiculidae); (esp.) Corbicula leana 真蚬
• 跣barefooted
• 燹conflagration
• 姺name of an ancient state
• 崄precipitous; rugged
• 幰curtain at front of carriage