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赝

yàn

Character Traditional 贗

What 赝 means

1. false

Other readings

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

• yànvariant of {赝|yàn}

Example sentences

• 我觉得当汤姆发现他买来的画是赝品的时候，他会很生气。
  Wǒ juéde dāng Tāngmǔ fāxiàn tā mǎi lái de huà shì yànpǐn de shíhou, tā huì hěn shēngqì.
  I think Tom is going to be pretty mad when he finds out that the painting he bought is a fake.

Words starting with 赝

• 赝品yàn pǐnfake; counterfeit article

Characters that look like 赝

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

• 摩móto rub
• 磨móto rub; to grind; to polish
• 薯shǔpotato; yam
• 膺yīngbreast; receive
• 麋mímoose; river bank
• 篑kuìbasket for carrying soil

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