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阉

yān

Character Traditional 閹

What 阉 means

1. to castrate
2. a castrate
3. neuter

Example sentences

• 虽然公山羊羔经常因为无法产奶而被淘汰，但有时它们会被阉割，并作为「阉羊」留在羊群中。这种脖子上挂着铃铛的「领头羊」通常是羊群的领袖。
  Although the male goat kids are often culled because they will never produce milk, they are sometimes castrated instead and allowed to remain in the herd as a "wether". With a bell around its neck, such a "bellwether" is usually the leader for the rest of the herd.

Words starting with 阉

• 阉割yān gēto castrate; fig. to emasculate
• 阉人yān réna castrate
• 阉寺yān sì(literary) court eunuch
• 阉然yān ráncovertly; secretly
• 阉竖yān shùeunuch (contemptuous appellation)

Characters built on 奄

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

• 掩yǎnto cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc)…
• 淹yānto flood; to submerge; to drown
• 俺ǎnI (northern dialects)
• 鹌ānused in 鹌鹑
• 庵ānhut; small temple; nunnery
• 唵ǎn(interjection) oh!; (dialect) to stuff sth in one's mouth…
• 崦yānname of a mountain in Gansu
• 罨yǎnfoment; valve

Characters that look like 阉

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

• 阐chǎnto express; to disclose; to enlighten
• 淘táoto wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities); to dredge…
• 阔kuòrich; wide; broad
• 阈yùthreshold
• 阑lánrailing; balustrade; door-screen
• 阄jiūlots (to be drawn); lot (in a game of chance)

Sounds the same

Read yān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烟cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist
• 淹to flood; to submerge; to drown
• 焉where; how
• 殷dark red
• 嫣(literary) lovely; sweet
• 腌to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat)
• 咽throat; pharynx; narrow pass
• 湮(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 胭rouge
• 啱correct; suitable; to suit sb
• 鄢used in 鄢陵
• 恹used in 恹恹