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阍

hūn

Character Traditional 閽

What 阍 means

1. doorkeeper

Characters built on 昏

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

• 婚hūn(bound form) marriage; wedding; (bound form) to marry
• 惛hūnconfused; forgetful; silly

Sounds the same

Read hūn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 婚(bound form) marriage; wedding; (bound form) to marry
• 昏muddle-headed; twilight; to faint
• 荤strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar
• 惛confused; forgetful; silly
• 殙to die by taking poison
• 睯gloomy; depressed
• 碈used in place names