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酣

hān

Character

What 酣 means

1. intoxicated

Example sentences

• 我发觉男孩儿酣然入睡了。
  Wǒ fājué nánháir hān rán rùshuì le.
  I found the boy fast asleep.

Words starting with 酣

• 酣睡hān shuìto sleep soundly; to fall into a deep sleep
• 酣畅淋漓hān chàng lín líto one's heart's content (idiom)
• 酣畅hān chàngunrestrained; cheerful lack of inhibition, esp. for drinking or sleeping…
• 酣梦hān mèngsweet dream; sleeping soundly
• 酣战hān zhànto fight lustily
• 酣眠hān miánto sleep soundly; to be fast asleep
• 酣醉hān zuìto be dead drunk
• 酣饮hān yǐnto drink one's fill

Words containing 酣

• 战酣zhàn hān(literary) at the height of the battle
• 酒至半酣jiǔ zhì bàn hānto drink until one is half drunk
• 酒酣耳热jiǔ hān ěr rètipsy and merry (idiom)

Characters built on 甘

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

• 柑gānlarge tangerine
• 苷gānlicorice; glycoside
• 坩gāncrucible
• 邯hánused in 邯郸
• 泔gānslop from rinsing rice
• 绀gànviolet or purple
• 疳gān(TCM) chronic pediatric malnutrition disorder
• 蚶hānsmall clam (Arca inflata)

Characters that look like 酣

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

• 酬chóuto entertain; to repay; to return
• 酮tóngketone
• 酗xùdrunk
• 釉yòuglaze (of porcelain)
• 酝yùnto brew
• 跆táito trample, to kick

Sounds the same

Read hān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鼾snore; to snore
• 憨silly; simple-minded; foolish
• 蚶small clam (Arca inflata)
• 歛to desire; to give
• 顸dawdling
• 谽a mouth or opening