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钿

diàn

Character Traditional 鈿

What 钿 means

1. to inlay with gold, silver etc
2. ancient inlaid ornament shaped as a flower

Other readings

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

• tiáncoin; money

Characters built on 田

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

• 甸diànsuburbs or outskirts; one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic…
• 佃diànto rent farmland from a landlord
• 畑tiánused in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc…
• 畋tiánto cultivate (land); to hunt

Sounds the same

Read diàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 店inn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store
• 电lightning; electricity; electric (bound form)
• 殿palace hall
• 垫pad; cushion; mat
• 奠to fix; to settle; a libation to the dead
• 惦to think of; to remember; to miss
• 淀(bound form) shallow lake (usu. in place names)
• 甸suburbs or outskirts; one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic…
• 靛indigo pigment
• 佃to rent farmland from a landlord
• 扂door latch
• 玷blemish; disgrace; flaw in jade