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衅

xìn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 釁

What 衅 means

1. quarrel
2. dispute
3. a blood sacrifice (arch.)

Example sentences

• 他是个挑衅高手。
  Tā shì gè tiǎoxìn gāoshǒu.
  He's a master of provocation.
• 萨米对顾客变得更加挑衅了。
  Sàmǐ duì gùkè biàn de gèngjiā tiǎoxìn le.
  Sami became more aggressive with customers.
• 反叛者践踏敌人的旗帜，以示挑衅。
  Rebels stomped on the enemy’s flags as a sign of defiance.
• 有时候冰球运动员相互挑衅得太厉害以至于会引发斗殴。
  Yǒushíhou bīngqiú yùndòngyuán xiānghù tiǎoxìn de tài lìhai yǐzhìyú huì yǐnfā dòu'ōu.
  Sometimes hockey players get so competitive that fights break out.

Words starting with 衅

• 衅端xìn duānpretext for a dispute
• 衅隙xìn xìenmity

Words containing 衅

• 挑衅tiǎo xìnto provoke; provocation
• 寻衅xún xìnto pick a quarrel; to start a fight
• 边衅biān xìnclash on the frontier; border conflict
• 观衅伺隙guān xìn sì xìlit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom); fig. to search out one's opponent's…
• 寻衅滋事罪xún xìn zī shì zuìdisorderly behavior (PRC law)

Characters that look like 衅

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

• 畔pàn(bound form) side; edge; boundary
• 砰pēng(onomatopoeia) bang; thump
• 眸móupupil (of the eye); eye
• 砷shēnarsenic (chemistry)
• 蚱zhàgrasshopper
• 蚪dǒuused in 蝌蚪

Sounds the same

Read xìn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 信letter; mail; to trust
• 芯used in 芯子; Taiwan pr. xīn
• 囟fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
• 焮heat; flame; inflammation
• 舋variant of 衅; quarrel; dispute
• 㐰old variant of 信
• 伩variant of 信