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颔

hàn

Character Traditional 頷

What 颔 means

1. chin
2. to nod (one's assent)

Words starting with 颔

• 颔首hàn shǒuto nod one's head
• 颔下hàn xiàunder one's chin
• 颔联hàn liánthird and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet
• 颔下腺hàn xià xiànsubmaxillary glands (biology)
• 颔首之交hàn shǒu zhī jiāonodding acquaintance

Words containing 颔

• 下颔xià hànlower jaw; mandible
• 下颔骨xià hàn gǔlower jawbone; mandible
• 黄颔蛇huáng hàn shéadder (zoology)

Characters built on 含

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

• 焓hánenthalpy
• 晗hánbefore daybreak; dawn about to break; (used in given names)
• 唅hán(literary) to put in the mouth

Characters that look like 颔

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

• 锁suǒto lock; to lock up; a lock
• 旗qíflag; variant of 旗
• 猩xīngape
• 镁měimagnesium (chemistry)
• 颌hé(bound form) jaw
• 辗zhǎnused in 辗转

Sounds the same

Read hàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 汉man
• 汗perspiration; sweat; to be speechless (out of helplessness, embarrassment etc)…
• 憾regret (sense of loss or dissatisfaction)
• 旱drought
• 捍to ward off (a blow); to withstand; to defend
• 撼to shake; to vibrate
• 翰writing brush; writing; pen
• 悍heroic; intrepid; valiant
• 焊to weld; to braze; to solder
• 菡lotus blossom
• 瀚ocean; vastness
• 螒Aulacophora femoralis