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馑

jǐn

Character Traditional 饉

What 馑 means

1. time of famine or crop failure

Words containing 馑

• 饥馑荐臻jī jǐn jiàn zhēnfamine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)

Characters built on 堇

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

• 谨jǐncautious; careful; solemnly
• 勤qíndiligent; industrious; hardworking; frequent; regular; constant; (bound form) work; duty…
• 瑾jǐnbrilliancy (of gems)
• 觐jìn(history) to have an audience with the Emperor
• 槿jǐnHibiscus syriacus; transient
• 鄞yínused in 鄞州

Characters that look like 馑

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

• 错cuòmistake; wrong; bad
• 镇zhènto press down; to calm; to subdue
• 镀dùto plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
• 镁měimagnesium (chemistry)
• 镌juānto engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟

Sounds the same

Read jǐn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 仅barely; only; merely
• 紧tight; strict; close at hand
• 谨cautious; careful; solemnly
• 锦brocade; embroidered work; bright
• 尽to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme…
• 堇clay; old variant of 仅; violet (plant)
• 瑾brilliancy (of gems)
• 槿Hibiscus syriacus; transient
• 卺nuptial wine cup
• 厪hut
• 墐bury; plaster with mud
• 廑careful; hut; variant of 仅