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阄

jiū

Character Traditional 鬮

What 阄 means

1. lots (to be drawn)
2. lot (in a game of chance)

Words containing 阄

• 抓阄zhuā jiūto draw straws

Characters that look like 阄

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

• 阁gépavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir
• 阈yùthreshold
• 闺guīsmall arched door; boudoir; lady's chamber; (fig.) women
• 阎yán(literary) the gate of a lane
• 阉yānto castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 阂héobstruct

Sounds the same

Read jiū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 究after all; to investigate; to study carefully
• 纠to gather together; to investigate; to entangle
• 揪to seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
• 啾(onomatopoeia) wailing of child; chirp; kiss (Tw)
• 鸠turtledove; (literary) to gather
• 揫to gather; to collect
• 摎to strangle; to inquire into
• 鬏bun (of hair)
• 樛to hang down
• 赳see 赳赳
• 丩old variant of 纠