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袅

niǎo

Character Traditional 嫋

What 袅 means

1. delicate
2. graceful

Other readings

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

• niǎodelicate; graceful
• niǎodelicate; graceful
• niǎovariant of {袅|niǎo}

Words starting with 袅

• 袅袅niǎo niǎorising in spirals
• 袅娜niǎo nuóslim and graceful
• 袅袅婷婷niǎo niǎo tíng tíng(idiom) (of a woman) elegant and supple

Words containing 袅

• 娉婷袅娜pīng tíng niǎo nuó(idiom) (of a woman) gorgeous and graceful; lithe and lovely

Characters that look like 袅

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

• 皇huángemperor; old variant of 惶
• 臭chòustench; smelly; to smell (bad)
• 羞xiūshy; ashamed; shame
• 晟shèngbrightness of sun; splendor; also pr. chéng
• 盏zhǎna small cup; classifier for lamps
• 蛊gǔarch. legendary venomous insect; to poison; to bewitch

Sounds the same

Read niǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鸟bird; "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196)…
• 嬲to tease; to disturb
• 茑parasitic mistletoe (Loranthus parasiticus), esp. on the mulberry