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额

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HSK 6 Character Traditional 額

What 额 means

1. forehead
2. horizontal tablet or inscribed board
3. specified number or amount

Other readings

额 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• évariant of {额|é}

Example sentences

• 额...
  Er...
• 他吻她的前额。
  Tā wěn tā de qián'é.
  He kissed her forehead.
• 他吻了我的额头。
  He kissed me on the forehead.
• 电池要额外付钱。
  You need to pay extra for the batteries.
• 我亲了她的额头。
  I kissed her on the forehead.
• 让我摸摸你的额头。
  Ràng wǒ mō mō nǐ de étóu.
  Come feel my forehead.

Words starting with 额

• 额外é wàiextra; added; additional
• 额头é tóuforehead
• 额度é dùquota; (credit) limit
• 额角é jiǎoforehead; temples
• 额定é dìngspecified (capacity, output etc); rated (capacity, output etc)
• 额外性é wài xìngadditionality (economics)
• 额济纳É jì nàEjin Banner in Alxa League 阿拉善盟
• 额尔金É ěr jīnJames Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who…
• 额定值é dìng zhírated value; rating (for power output, flame resistance etc)
• 额吉é jímother (Mongolian)
• 额尔古纳市É ěr gǔ nà ShìErgun, a county-level city in Hulunbuir City 呼伦贝尔市
• 额外补贴é wài bǔ tiēto give an extra subsidy, or bonus etc; bonus; perquisite
• 额比河É bǐ HéEbinur River in Xinjiang
• 额济纳河É jì nà HéEjin River in Alxa League 阿拉善盟
• 额尔古纳河É ěr gǔ nà HéArgun River of Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, tributary of Heilongjiang River 黑龙江
• 额尔齐斯河É ěr qí sī HéIrtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to…
• 额叶é yèfrontal lobe
• 额骨é gǔfrontal bone (forehead)
• 额济纳旗É jì nà QíEjin Banner in Alxa League 阿拉善盟
• 额敏县É mǐn XiànEmin, a county in Tacheng Prefecture 塔城地区
• 额菲尔士峰É fēi ěr shì FēngMount Everest
• 额窦é dòufrontal sinus
• 额菲尔士É fēi ěr shìEverest (name); Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India…
• 额尔古纳É ěr gǔ nàsee 额尔古纳市

Words containing 额

• 名额míng équota; number of places; place (in an institution, a group etc)
• 数额shù éamount; sum of money; fixed number
• 金额jīn ésum of money; amount of money
• 总额zǒng étotal (amount or value)
• 份额fèn éshare; portion
• 巨额jù éa huge sum; an enormous amount (of money)
• 销售额xiāo shòu ésales figure; total income from sales; turnover
• 余额yú ébalance (of an account, bill etc); surplus; remainder
• 配额pèi équota; ration
• 高额gāo éhigh quota; large amount
• 营业额yíng yè ésum or volume of business; turnover
• 前额qián éforehead
• 全额quán éthe full amount; full (compensation, scholarship, production etc)
• 差额chā ébalance (financial); discrepancy (in a sum or quota); difference
• 限额xiàn équota; limit (upper or lower); to set a quota; to set a limit
• 定额dìng éfixed amount; quota
• 超额chāo éabove quota
• 焦头烂额jiāo tóu làn élit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom)…
• 匾额biǎn éa horizontal inscribed board
• 出口额chū kǒu éexport amount
• 贸易额mào yì évolume of trade (between countries)
• 面额miàn édenomination (of currency or bond)
• 交易额jiāo yì ésum or volume of business transactions; turnover
• 足额zú ésufficient; full (payment)

Characters that look like 额

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

• 颜yáncolor; face; countenance
• 鞍ān(bound form) saddle
• 辙zhérut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 觐jìn(history) to have an audience with the Emperor
• 觑qùto spy; watch for
• 颞nièbones of the temple (on the human head); see 颞颥, temple

Sounds the same

Read é, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哦to chant
• 俄suddenly; very soon
• 鹅goose
• 娥good; beautiful
• 讹error; false; to extort
• 峨lofty; name of a mountain
• 蛾(bound form) moth
• 莪zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), plant rhizome similar to turmeric
• 囮decoy
• 蚵(Taiwan) oyster (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ô])
• 锇osmium (chemistry)
• 涐old name for the Dadu River 大渡河