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衔

xián

HSK 6 Character Traditional 銜

What 衔 means

1. bit (of a bridle)
2. to hold in the mouth
3. to harbor (feelings)
4. to link
5. to accept
6. rank
7. title

Other readings

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

• xiánvariant of {衔|xián}
• xiánvariant of {衔|xián}

Words starting with 衔

• 衔接xián jiēto link up; to connect; to join

Words containing 衔

• 头衔tóu xiántitle; rank; appellation
• 领衔lǐng xiánleading (role); heading list of signatories; leading actors (in a show)
• 军衔jūn xiánarmy rank; military rank
• 官衔guān xiántitle; official rank
• 名衔míng xiánrank; title
• 学衔xué xiánacademic title; rank
• 授衔shòu xiánrank of professor; academic title
• 职衔zhí xiántitle (position within an organization)
• 警衔jǐng xiánpolice rank
• 马衔mǎ xiánbit; mouthpiece
• 结草衔环jié cǎo xián huánto repay sb's kind acts (idiom)
• 领衔主演lǐng xián zhǔ yǎnleading actors (in a show); starring
• 钳马衔枚qián mǎ xián méiwith horses and soldiers gagged (idiom); (of a marching army) in utter silence
• 燕子衔泥垒大窝yàn zi xián ní lěi dà wōthe swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time (idiom)…

Characters built on 钅

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

• 钱qiáncoin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两
• 键jiànkey (on a piano or computer keyboard); button (on a mouse or other device); chemical bond
• 链liànchain; cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m)…
• 铅qiānlead (chemistry)
• 钳qiánpincers; pliers; tongs
• 钎qiāna drill (for boring through rock)
• 镰lián(bound form) sickle
• 锏jiǎnancient weapon like a long solid metal truncheon

Characters that look like 衔

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

• 街jiēstreet
• 晰xīclear; distinct
• 殉xùnto be buried with the dead; to die for a cause
• 榔lángtall tree (archaic)
• 弼bìto assist
• 剜wānto scoop out; to gouge out

Sounds the same

Read xián, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 咸all; everyone; each
• 闲enclosure; (variant of 闲; unoccupied
• 嫌to dislike; suspicion; resentment
• 弦bow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring
• 贤worthy or virtuous person; honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation
• 娴elegant; refined; to be skilled at
• 涎saliva
• 舷side of a ship or an aircraft
• 痫epilepsy; insanity
• 䕭a kind of vegetable
• 伭(literary) cruel; ruthless; (literary) dark red; black
• 憪composed, contented