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褊

biǎn

Character

What 褊 means

1. narrow
2. urgent

Words starting with 褊

• 褊狭biǎn xiánarrow; small-minded

Characters built on 扁

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

• 编biānto weave; to plait; to organize
• 遍biàneverywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time
• 偏piānto lean; to slant; oblique
• 篇piānsheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
• 骗piànto cheat; to swindle; to deceive
• 蝙biānused in 蝙蝠
• 翩piānto fly fast
• 匾biǎnhorizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall…

Characters that look like 褊

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

• 稿gǎomanuscript; draft; stalk of grain
• 蝙biānused in 蝙蝠
• 耦ǒua pair; a mate; a couple
• 镉gécadmium (chemistry)
• 鹌ānused in 鹌鹑
• 裱biǎoto hang (paper); to mount (painting)

Sounds the same

Read biǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 扁flat; (colloquial) to beat (sb) up; old variant of 匾
• 贬to diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate
• 匾horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall…
• 窆to put a coffin in the grave
• 碥dangerous rocks jutting out over rapids
• 稨see 稨豆
• 藊see 藊豆
• 萹see 萹豆