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遣

qiǎn

HSK 6 Character

What 遣 means

1. bound formto dispatch; to send
2. bound formto drive away; to dispel

Example sentences

• 阅读是我的消遣。
  Yuèdú shì wǒ de xiāoqiǎn.
  Reading is my past-time.
• 打牌是一种流行的消遣方式。
  Dǎpái shì yīzhǒng liúxíng de xiāoqiǎn fāngshì.
  Playing cards is a popular pastime.
• 公司倒闭了。我们遣散了所有员工。
  The company went bankrupt. We laid off all of the employees.
• 汤姆失业后，为了排遣郁闷的心情而开始了赌博。
  Tāngmǔ shīyè hòu, wèile páiqiǎn yùmèn de xīnqíng ér kāishǐ le dǔbó.
  After Tom lost his job, he started to gamble to cope with his depression.
• 玛丽最喜欢的消遣是读哲学书；至于汤姆，他比较喜欢自慰。
  Mary's favourite pastime was reading philosophy books, while Tom, he preferred masturbating.
• 国王受够了他的大臣们总是对他阿谀奉承，于是把他们遣散了。
  Guówáng shòugòu le tā de dàchén men zǒngshì duì tā ēyú-fèngchéng, yúshì bǎ tāmen qiǎnsàn le.
  The king was tired of his sycophants always praising him, so he sent them away.

Words starting with 遣

• 遣返qiǎn fǎnto repatriate (e.g. prisoners of war); to send back
• 遣送qiǎn sòngto send away; to deport; to repatriate
• 遣使qiǎn shǐto dispatch an envoy
• 遣散qiǎn sànto disband; to dismiss; demobilization
• 遣词qiǎn cíto choose one's words; wording
• 遣散费qiǎn sàn fèiseverance pay
• 遣送出境qiǎn sòng chū jìngto deport
• 遣闷qiǎn mènto dispel anguish

Words containing 遣

• 派遣pài qiǎnto send (on a mission); to dispatch
• 消遣xiāo qiǎnto while the time away; amusement; pastime
• 排遣pái qiǎnto divert oneself from (loneliness, grief etc); to dispel (negative thoughts etc)
• 差遣chāi qiǎnto send (on errand)
• 调遣diào qiǎnto dispatch; to assign; a dispatch
• 编遣biān qiǎnto reorganize (troops etc) and discharge surplus personnel
• 资遣zī qiǎnto dismiss with severance pay; to pay sb off
• 先遣队xiān qiǎn duì(military) advance party
• 资遣费zī qiǎn fèiseverance pay (Tw)
• 调兵遣将diào bīng qiǎn jiàngto move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army; to send a team on a task
• 娱遣yú qiǎnamusement

Characters that look like 遣

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

• 道dàoroad; path; (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art…
• 渡dùto cross; to pass through; to ferry
• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 遗yí(bound form) to leave behind
• 溃kuì(bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike…
• 谩mánto deceive

Sounds the same

Read qiǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 浅shallow; light (color)
• 谴to censure; to reprimand
• 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