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谄

chǎn

Character Traditional 諂

What 谄 means

1. to flatter
2. to cajole

Words starting with 谄

• 谄媚chǎn mèito flatter
• 谄媚者chǎn mèi zhěflatterer

Words containing 谄

• 谗谄chán chǎnto defame one person while flattering another; a slandering toady

Characters built on 臽

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

• 焰yànflame
• 阎yán(literary) the gate of a lane
• 萏dànlotus

Characters that look like 谄

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

• 选xuǎnto choose; to pick; to select
• 语yǔdialect; language; speech
• 诵sòngto read aloud; to recite
• 谕yùorder (from above)
• 谘zīsimplified form of 諮…
• 谑xuèjoy; to joke; to banter

Sounds the same

Read chǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 产to give birth; to reproduce; to produce
• 阐to express; to disclose; to enlighten
• 铲to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel
• 浐name of a river in Shaanxi province; see 浐河
• 蒇to complete; to prepare
• 冁smilingly
• 丳skewer
• 啴used in 啴啴
• 𡶴winding mountain path
• 旵(literary) (of sunlight) to beam down; to illuminate…
• 𬊤to make a fire
• 讇to talk in one's sleep; old variant of 谄