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谴

qiǎn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 譴

What 谴 means

1. to censure
2. to reprimand

Example sentences

• 议员受到了议会道德委员会的谴责。
  Yìyuán shòudào le yìhuì dàodé wěiyuánhuì de qiǎnzé.
  The senator was censured by the congressional ethics committee.
• 谴责种族主义很重要，但光是谴责种族主义是不够的。
  It is important to condemn racism, but that alone is not enough.
• 911事件让世人震惊，全球所有的政治家都一致谴责恐怖分子的这一应受人斥责的行径。
  911 shìjiàn ràng shìrén zhènjīng, quánqiú suǒyǒu de zhèngzhìjiā dōu yīzhì qiǎnzé kǒngbùfènzǐ de zhè yīyīng shòu rén chìzé de xíngjìng.
  Shocked by the events of September 11th, politicians all over the world condemned the terrorists for their reprehensible deed.
• 阿里穆罕默德盖迪总理周六在奈洛比对记者表示，他的政府强烈谴责所谓的「令人发指、犯罪且不人道的行为」。
  Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi told reporters in Nairobi Saturday that his government strongly condemns what he called an "abhorrent, criminal and inhumane act."

Words starting with 谴

• 谴责qiǎn zéto denounce; to condemn; to criticize
• 谴责小说qiǎn zé xiǎo shuōnovel of denunciation (according to Lu Xun's 鲁迅
• 谴诃qiǎn hēto reprimand
• 谴呵qiǎn hēvariant of 谴诃

Words containing 谴

• 天谴tiān qiǎnthe wrath of Heaven; imperial displeasure
• 自谴zì qiǎnto blame oneself; self-recrimination
• 呵谴hē qiǎnto reprimand
• 诃谴hē qiǎnvariant of 呵谴

Characters that look like 谴

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

• 禧xǐjoy
• 擂léito pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum)…
• 慵yōnglethargic
• 熵shāngentropy (character created in 1923)
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟
• 缥piāoused in 缥渺; Taiwan pr. piǎo

Sounds the same

Read qiǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 浅shallow; light (color)
• 遣(bound form) to dispatch; to send; (bound form) to drive away; to dispel
• 缱used in 缱绻
• 𣍰pelvic cavity; lower abdomen
• 肷(usu. of an animal) the part of the side of the body between the ribs and the hipbone