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馋

chán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 饞

馋 (chán) means "gluttonous; greedy; to have a craving". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 馋 means

1. gluttonous
2. greedy
3. to have a craving

Example sentences

• 你说得我馋死了！
  The way you describe it makes me drool.

Words starting with 馋

• 馋人chán rénto make one's mouth water; appetizing; greedy person
• 馋嘴chán zuǐgluttonous; glutton
• 馋猫chán māo(humorous) person with a strong appetite; greedy eater (used playfully)
• 馋鬼chán guǐglutton; greedy pig
• 馋嘴蛙chán zuǐ wāsautéed bullfrog with chili sauce
• 馋涎欲滴chán xián yù dīlit. to drool with desire (idiom); fig. to hunger for; greedy
• 馋痨chán láogluttony
• 馋涎欲垂chán xián yù chuísee 馋涎欲滴

Words containing 馋

• 解馋jiě chánto satisfy one's craving
• 嘴馋zuǐ chángluttonous; ravenous
• 眼馋yǎn chánto covet; to envy
• 贪馋tān chángluttonous; greedy; insatiable
• 眼馋肚饱yǎn chán dù bǎoto have eyes bigger than one's belly (idiom)

Characters that look like 馋

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

• 揍zòuto hit; to beat (sb); (colloquial) to smash (sth)
• 铢zhūtwenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
• 犊dúcalf; sacrificial victim
• 惚hūused in 恍惚
• 悻xìngangry
• 谗chánto slander; to defame; to misrepresent

Sounds the same

Read chán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 缠to wind around; to wrap round; to coil
• 禅dhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 澶still (as of water); still water
• 蝉cicada
• 单used in 单于
• 婵used in 婵娟
• 蟾toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking)…
• 谗to slander; to defame; to misrepresent
• 潺flow; trickle (of water)
• 巉(literary) steep; rugged; jagged; precipitous
• 毚cunning; artful
• 磛cliff; peak

Where 馋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chān–chǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chán correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.