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谚

yàn

Character Traditional 諺

What 谚 means

1. proverb

Example sentences

• 你最喜欢的谚语是什么？
  Nǐ zuì xǐhuān de yànyǔ shì shénme?
  What is your favorite proverb?
• 你最喜欢的谚语是什幺？
  What is your favorite proverb?
• “滚石不生苔”是一句谚语。
  "Gǔn shí bù shēng tái" shì yī jù yànyǔ.
  "A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a saying.
• 在威尔斯，我们有一个句谚语。
  Zài wēi ěr sī, wǒmen yǒu yī gè jù yànyǔ.
  In Wales we have a proverb.
• 每一个生肖的背后都有着数不尽的成语、谚语和故事。
  Měi yī gè shēngxiào de bèihòu dōu yǒuzhe shǔbujìn de chéngyǔ, yànyǔ hé gùshi.
  Behind every animal on the Chinese zodiac lies an array of proverbs, sayings and stories.

Words starting with 谚

• 谚语yàn yǔproverb
• 谚文yàn wénhangul, Korean phonetic alphabet

Words containing 谚

• 俗谚sú yàncommon saying; proverb
• 古谚gǔ yànancient proverb; old saying
• 民谚mín yànfolk saying; proverb
• 农谚nóng yànfarmers' saying
• 里谚lǐ yàncommon saying; folk proverb
• 俗谚口碑sú yàn kǒu bēicommon sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs
• 俚谚lǐ yàncommon saying; folk proverb

Characters that look like 谚

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

• 请qǐngto ask; to invite; please (do sth)
• 诸zhūall; various
• 媚mèi(bound form) to flatter; (bound form) charming
• 谤bàngto slander; to defame; to speak ill of
• 谙ānto be versed in; to know well
• 谑xuèjoy; to joke; to banter

Sounds the same

Read yàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 验to examine; to test; to check
• 厌(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
• 宴(bound form) to entertain at a banquet; (bound form) banquet; feast; (literary) peaceful…
• 艳bright; fresh and attractive; glamorous; (bound form) amorous; romantic…
• 咽to swallow
• 焰flame
• 燕swallow (family Hirundinidae); old variant of 宴
• 雁wild goose
• 彦accomplished; elegant
• 砚ink-stone
• 晏late; quiet
• 堰weir