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蹒跚

pán shān

2-character word Traditional 蹣跚

What 蹒跚 means

1. to walk unsteadily; to stagger; to lurch; to hobble; to totter

The characters in 蹒跚

• 蹒pánused in 蹒跚; Taiwan pr. mán
• 跚shānused in 蹒跚

Words starting with 蹒跚

• 蹒跚不前pán shān bù qiánto falter; to stall

Words containing 蹒跚

• 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

Sounds the same

Read pán shān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 盘山going around a mountain
• 盘跚variant of 蹒跚

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