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靛

diàn

Character

What 靛 means

1. indigo pigment

Words starting with 靛

• 靛油diàn yóuaniline oil
• 靛白diàn báiindigo white
• 靛色diàn sèindigo (color)
• 靛花diàn huāindigo
• 靛蓝diàn lánindigo (dye)
• 靛青diàn qīngindigo
• 靛蓝色diàn lán sèindigo blue
• 靛冠噪鹛diàn guān zào méi(bird species of China) blue-crowned laughingthrush (Pterorhinus courtoisi)

Words containing 靛

• 山靛shān diàn(botany) the spurges, the mercuries (plants of genus Mercurialis)
• 蓝靛lán diànindigo
• 青靛qīng diànindigo

Characters that look like 靛

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

• 额éforehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
• 骸háibones of the body
• 辙zhérut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 觐jìn(history) to have an audience with the Emperor
• 龊chuòused in 龌龊
• 觑qùto spy; watch for

Sounds the same

Read diàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 店inn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store
• 电lightning; electricity; electric (bound form)
• 殿palace hall
• 垫pad; cushion; mat
• 奠to fix; to settle; a libation to the dead
• 惦to think of; to remember; to miss
• 淀(bound form) shallow lake (usu. in place names)
• 甸suburbs or outskirts; one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic…
• 佃to rent farmland from a landlord
• 钿to inlay with gold, silver etc; ancient inlaid ornament shaped as a flower
• 扂door latch
• 玷blemish; disgrace; flaw in jade