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颧

quán

Character Traditional 顴

What 颧 means

1. bound formcheekbone

Words starting with 颧

• 颧骨quán gǔcheekbone; zygomatic bone
• 颧弓quán gōng(anatomy) zygomatic arch

Characters built on 雚

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

• 灌guànto irrigate; to pour; to install (software)
• 罐guàncan; jar; pot
• 獾huānbadger
• 鹳guàncrane; stork

Characters that look like 颧

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

• 麟línvariant of 麟
• 蘸zhànto dip in (ink, sauce etc)
• 鼹yǎnmole
• 鹳guàncrane; stork
• 髑dúused in 髑髅
• 懿yì(literary) exemplary; virtuous

Sounds the same

Read quán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 全all; whole; entire
• 泉spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
• 权authority; power; right
• 拳fist; boxing
• 蜷to curl up (like a scroll); to huddle; Melania libertina
• 荃(fragrant plant)
• 诠to explain; to comment; to annotate
• 鬈to curl; curled
• 痊to recover (from illness)
• 醛aldehyde
• 铨to estimate; to select
• 筌bamboo fish trap