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蚓

yǐn

Character

What 蚓 means

1. used in {蚯蚓|qiū yǐn}

Example sentences

• 我碰蚯蚓的时候，它扭动起来。
  Wǒ pèng qiūyǐn de shíhou, tā niǔ dòng qǐlai.
  The earthworm wriggled when I touched it.

Words containing 蚓

• 蚯蚓qiū yǐn(zoology) earthworm

Characters that look like 蚓

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

• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off
• 桦huà(botany) birch (genus Betula)
• 钡bèibarium (chemistry)
• 蛎lìoyster
• 蚝háooyster
• 郸dānused in place names 邯郸

Sounds the same

Read yǐn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 饮to drink
• 引to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth
• 隐(bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-
• 瘾addiction; craving
• 尹(literary) to administer; to govern; (bound form) governor; prefect…
• 殷roll of thunder
• 听smile (archaic)
• 吲used in 吲哚
• 廴"long stride" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 54), occurring in 建, 延, 廷 etc
• 檃tool used for shaping wood (old)
• 櫽tool used for shaping wood (old); old variant of 檃
• 磤(onomatopoeia) sound of thunder