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蛘

yáng

Character

What 蛘 means

1. a weevil found in rice etc

Characters built on 羊

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

• 样yàngmanner; pattern; way
• 洋yángocean; vast; foreign
• 氧yǎngoxygen (chemistry)
• 痒yǎngto itch; to tickle
• 烊yángmolten; smelt
• 徉yángto walk back and forth
• 佯yángto feign; to pretend
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)

Sounds the same

Read yáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 羊sheep; goat
• 阳positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism)
• 洋ocean; vast; foreign
• 扬to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing
• 杨poplar
• 佯to feign; to pretend
• 炀molten; smelt
• 疡ulcers; sores
• 烊molten; smelt
• 徉to walk back and forth
• 旸rising sun; sunshine
• 飏to soar; to fly; to float