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镌

juān

Character Traditional 鐫

What 镌 means

1. to engrave (on wood or stone)
2. to inscribe

Words starting with 镌

• 镌刻juān kèto engrave
• 镌镂juān lòuto engrave
• 镌黜juān chùto dismiss an official
• 镌心铭骨juān xīn míng gǔetched in one's bones and heart (idiom); ever-present memory (esp. resentment)
• 镌骨铭心juān gǔ míng xīnetched in one's bones and heart (idiom); ever-present memory (esp. resentment)

Words containing 镌

• 雕镌diāo juānto engrave (wood or stone); to carve

Characters that look like 镌

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

• 镇zhènto press down; to calm; to subdue
• 镀dùto plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
• 镖biāodart-like throwing weapon; goods sent under the protection of an armed escort
• 镁měimagnesium (chemistry)
• 镓jiāgallium (chemistry)
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟

Sounds the same

Read juān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 捐to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy
• 涓brook; to select
• 娟beautiful; graceful
• 鹃cuckoo
• 圈to confine; to lock up; to pen in
• 蠲(literary) to remit; to exempt; (literary) millipede; (literary) to manifest
• 焆(literary) bright
• 朘(literary) to reduce; (literary) to exploit
• 悁angry; sad
• 脧variant of 朘
• 鎸variant of 镌, to engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe