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跚

shān

Character

What 跚 means

1. used in {蹒跚|pán shān}

Words containing 跚

• 蹒跚pán shānto walk unsteadily; to stagger; to lurch; to hobble; to totter
• 步履蹒跚bù lǚ pán shān(idiom) to walk unsteadily; to hobble along
• 步态蹒跚bù tài pán shānto walk unsteadily
• 蹒跚不前pán shān bù qiánto falter; to stall
• 盘跚pán shānvariant of 蹒跚

Characters built on 册

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

• 删shānto delete
• 珊shāncoral
• 姗shānused in 姗姗

Characters that look like 跚

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

• 据jùaccording to; to act in accordance with; to depend on
• 酯zhǐester
• 瞄miáoto take aim; (fig.) to aim one's looks at; to glance at
• 辍chuòto stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend
• 晦huì(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night
• 绺liǔskein; tuft; lock

Sounds the same

Read shān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 山mountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 衫garment; jacket with open slits in place of sleeves
• 删to delete
• 珊coral
• 杉China fir; Cunninghamia lanceolata; also pr. shā
• 扇to fan; to slap sb on the face
• 姗used in 姗姗
• 煽to fan into a flame; to incite
• 潸tearfully
• 钐samarium (chemistry)
• 舢sampan
• 膻(old) a flock of sheep or goats; variant of 膻