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詹

zhān

Character

What 詹 means

1. literaryverbose
2. literaryto arrive, to reach

Other readings

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

• Zhānsurname Zhan

Example sentences

• 詹姆士上网搜寻。
  James searched online.
• 詹姆士遇上了阵雨。
  Zhān mǔ shì yù shàng le zhènyǔ.
  James was caught in a shower.
• 我最近见到过詹姆斯。
  Wǒ zuìjìn jiàn dào guo Zhānmǔsī.
  I have seen James recently.
• 吉姆是詹姆斯的简称。
  Jí mǔ shì Zhānmǔsī de jiǎnchēng.
  Jim is short for James.
• 这次换詹姆斯尖叫了。
  This time, it was James who screamed.
• 亨利詹姆斯出生于美国。
  Henry James was an American by birth.

Words starting with 詹

• 詹森Zhān sēnJohnson
• 詹江布尔Zhān jiāng bù ěrJanjanbureh river and city in Gambia
• 詹天佑Zhān Tiān yòuZhan Tianyou (1861-1919), Chinese railroad engineer
• 詹姆斯·庞德Zhān mǔ sī · Páng déJames Bond
• 詹姆斯·乔伊斯Zhān mǔ sī · Qiáo yī sīJames Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist writer, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
• 詹姆斯·高斯林Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī línJames Gosling (1955-), Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Java programming…
• 詹姆斯Zhān mǔ sīJames (name); LeBron James (1984-), NBA player
• 詹姆斯·戈士林Zhān mǔ sī · Gē shì línsee 詹姆斯·高斯林
• 詹姆斯·戈斯林Zhān mǔ sī · Gē sī línsee 詹姆斯·高斯林

Characters that look like 詹

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

• 腐fǔdecay; rotten
• 廉liánincorruptible; honest; inexpensive
• 麽mótiny; insignificant
• 窟kūcave; hole
• 屡lǚtime and again; repeatedly; frequently
• 虞yú(literary) to expect; to anticipate; (literary) to be concerned about…

Sounds the same

Read zhān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 沾to moisten; to be infected by; to receive benefit or advantage through a contact
• 瞻to gaze; to view
• 粘to glue; to paste; to adhere; to stick to
• 毡felt (fabric)
• 占to observe; to divine
• 谵(literary) to rant; to rave; to be delirious
• 旃felt; silken banner
• 栴used in 栴檀
• 𧮪garrulous; to whisper; to joke
• 邅not making progress
• 𫗴thick congee
• 驙(horse)