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霰

xiàn

Character

What 霰 means

1. graupel
2. snow pellet
3. soft hail

Words starting with 霰

• 霰弹枪xiàn dàn qiāngshotgun
• 霰粒肿xiàn lì zhǒng(medicine) chalazion

Words containing 霰

• 榴霰弹liú xiàn dànshrapnel shell; shrapnel; also pr. liú sǎn dàn

Characters that look like 霰

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

• 露lùdew; syrup; nectar
• 蠢chǔnstupid; sluggish; clumsy
• 霸bàhegemon; tyrant; lord
• 簸bǒto winnow; to toss up and down
• 麓lùfoot of a hill
• 籁làia sound; a noise; musical pipe with 3 reeds

Sounds the same

Read xiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 现to appear; present; now
• 线thread; string; wire
• 羡to envy
• 限to limit; to restrict; (bound form) limit
• 献to offer; to present; to dedicate
• 县county; (Japan) prefecture
• 宪statute; constitution
• 陷pitfall; trap; to get stuck
• 馅filling; stuffing (for dumplings, pies etc)
• 见to appear; also written 现
• 腺gland
• 苋amaranth (genus Amaranthus); Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor)…