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餍

yàn

Character Traditional 饜

What 餍 means

1. to eat to the full

Words containing 餍

• 饫甘餍肥yù gān yàn féito live off the fat of the land (idiom); to have a luxurious lifestyle
• 贪得无餍tān dé wú yànvariant of 贪得无厌

Characters built on 厌

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

• 魇yǎnto have a nightmare
• 恹yānused in 恹恹
• 厣yǎnoperculum (Latin: little lid); a covering flap (in various branches of anatomy)

Sounds the same

Read yàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 验to examine; to test; to check
• 厌(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
• 宴(bound form) to entertain at a banquet; (bound form) banquet; feast; (literary) peaceful…
• 艳bright; fresh and attractive; glamorous; (bound form) amorous; romantic…
• 咽to swallow
• 焰flame
• 燕swallow (family Hirundinidae); old variant of 宴
• 雁wild goose
• 彦accomplished; elegant
• 砚ink-stone
• 晏late; quiet
• 堰weir