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铨

quán

Character Traditional 銓

What 铨 means

1. to estimate
2. to select

Words starting with 铨

• 铨衡quán héngto measure and select talents
• 铨叙部Quán xù bùMinistry of Civil Service, Taiwan

Words containing 铨

• 胡铨Hú QuánHu Quan (1102-1180), Song Dynasty official and poet
• 蒋士铨Jiǎng Shì quánJiang Shiquan (1725-1784), Qing poet, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家

Characters built on 全

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

• 栓shuānbottle stopper; plug; (gun) bolt
• 诠quánto explain; to comment; to annotate
• 痊quánto recover (from illness)
• 拴shuānto tie up
• 荃quán(fragrant plant)
• 筌quánbamboo fish trap

Characters that look like 铨

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

• 锈xiùto rust
• 铀yóuuranium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. yòu
• 钴gǔ(chemistry) cobalt (Taiwan pr. gū); used in 钴𬭁gǔ mǔ
• 馀Yúsurname Yu
• 铿kēng(onomatopoeia) clang; jingling of metals; to strike
• 铪hāhafnium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read quán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 全all; whole; entire
• 泉spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
• 权authority; power; right
• 拳fist; boxing
• 蜷to curl up (like a scroll); to huddle; Melania libertina
• 荃(fragrant plant)
• 诠to explain; to comment; to annotate
• 鬈to curl; curled
• 痊to recover (from illness)
• 醛aldehyde
• 颧(bound form) cheekbone
• 筌bamboo fish trap