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颠

diān

HSK 6 Character Traditional 顛

What 颠 means

1. top (of the head)
2. apex
3. to fall forwards
4. inverted
5. to jolt

Example sentences

• 不列颠也是一座岛。
  Britain is also an island.
• 她被他迷得神魂颠倒。
  Tā bèi tā mí de shénhúndiāndǎo.
  She's completely crazy about him.
• 那些想要颠覆这个世界的人们，我们将击败你们。
  Nàxiē xiǎngyào diānfù zhège shìjiè de rénmen, wǒmen jiāng jībài nǐmen.
  To those who would tear the world down: we will defeat you.
• 那些想要颠复这个世界的人们，我们将击败你们。
  To those who would tear the world down: we will defeat you.
• 美利坚合众国于1776年宣布其独立于大不列颠王国。
  Měilìjiān Hézhòngguó yú yī qī qī liù nián xuānbù qí dúlì yú Dà Bùlièdiān wángguó.
  The US declared independence from Great Britain in 1776.
• 高岛平时虽然一副很帅气的样子，但是在他女友面前却是一副神魂颠倒的样子。
  Gāo dǎo píngshí suīrán yī fù hěn shuàiqi de yàngzi, dànshì zài tā nǚyǒu miànqián quèshì yī fù shénhúndiāndǎo de yàngzi.
  Gao Dao is usually really suave, but he seems completely smitten in front of his girlfriend.

Words starting with 颠

• 颠簸diān bǒto be jolted around…
• 颠倒diān dǎoto turn upside down; to reverse; back to front
• 颠覆diān fùto topple (i.e. knock over); to capsize; fig. to overturn…
• 颠沛流离diān pèi liú líhomeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight; to drift
• 颠倒黑白diān dǎo hēi báilit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately…
• 颠三倒四diān sān dǎo sìconfused; disorderly; incoherent
• 颠儿diān r(Beijing dialect) to skedaddle; to make oneself scarce
• 颠狂diān kuángdemented
• 颠球diān qiúto juggle a soccer ball (i.e. keep it in the air using feet, thighs, head etc)…
• 颠连diān liánillogical
• 颠颠diān diānglad and diligent
• 颠儿面diān r miànto lose face
• 颠覆罪diān fù zuìcrime of incitement to overthrow the state; abbr. for 煽动颠覆国家政权
• 颠来倒去diān lái dǎo qùto harp on; over and over; merely ring changes on a few terms
• 颠倒是非diān dǎo shì fēi(idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead
• 颠覆分子diān fù fèn zǐa subversive; a saboteur
• 颠覆国家罪diān fù guó jiā zuìcrime of incitement to overthrow the state; abbr. for 煽动颠覆国家政权
• 颠覆政府罪diān fù zhèng fǔ zuìcrime of incitement to overthrow the state; abbr. for 煽动颠覆国家政权
• 颠扑不破diān pū bù pòsolid; unbreakable; (fig.) irrefutable; incontrovertible; indisputable
• 颠茄diān qiédeadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
• 颠沛diān pèito fall over; to stumble; (fig.) to suffer hardship; to be in desperate straits
• 颠鸾倒凤diān luán dǎo fèngto have sexual intercourse
• 颠踣diān bóto fall down; to fall forward
• 颠峰diān fēngvariant of 巅峰

Words containing 颠

• 不列颠Bù liè diānBritain; British; Great Britain
• 神魂颠倒shén hún diān dǎolit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love…
• 大不列颠Dà Bù liè diānGreat Britain
• 屁颠屁颠pì diān pì diānlit. jolting buttocks; (colloquial intensifier) groveling; eager
• 跑跑颠颠pǎo pǎo diān diānto work hectically; to be on the go; to run around attending to various tasks
• 不列颠战役Bù liè diān Zhàn yìBattle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940)
• 不列颠诸岛Bù liè diān Zhū dǎoBritish Isles
• 新不列颠岛Xīn Bù liè diān DǎoNew Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea
• 野颠茄yě diān qiédeadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
• 乐颠了馅lè diān le xiànecstatic; overjoyed
• 流离颠沛liú lí diān pèidestitute and homeless (idiom); displaced and without means
• 不列颠哥伦比亚Bù liè diān Gē lún bǐ yàBritish Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
• 阴谋颠覆政府罪yīn móu diān fù zhèng fǔ zuìthe crime of conspiracy to overthrow the government
• 不列颠哥伦比亚省Bù liè diān Gē lún bǐ yà shěngBritish Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
• 煽动颠覆国家罪shān dòng diān fù guó jiā zuìcrime of conspiring to overthrow the state
• 煽动颠覆国家政权shān dòng diān fù guó jiā zhèng quánincitement to subvert state power (criminal charge used to gag free speech)
• 不列颠保卫战Bù liè diān Bǎo wèi zhànsee 不列颠战役

Characters built on 真

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

• 填tiánto fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in
• 滇Diānshort name for Yunnan 云南
• 阗tiánfill up; rumbling sound
• 瑱tiàn(literary) jade pendants attached to an official hat and hanging beside each ear…

Characters that look like 颠

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
• 凝níngto congeal; to concentrate attention; to stare
• 藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
• 薇wēiOsmunda regalis, a species of fern; Taiwan pr. wéi
• 鞘qiàoscabbard; sheath
• 赭zhěocher

Sounds the same

Read diān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 滇short name for Yunnan 云南
• 癫mentally deranged; crazy
• 掂to weigh in the hand; to estimate
• 巅summit
• 敁to weigh in the hand, to estimate; to shake
• 攧to fall; to stamp (one's foot); to toss
• 瘨convulsions; crazy
• 蹎to fall forward (variant of 颠
• 傎inversion; mistake
• 顚variant of 颠
• 巓same as 巅; summit; mountain peak