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魇

yǎn

Character Traditional 魘

What 魇 means

1. to have a nightmare

Words starting with 魇

• 魇寐yǎn mèito have a nightmare

Words containing 魇

• 梦魇mèng yǎnnightmare

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.

• 恹yānused in 恹恹
• 餍yànto eat to the full
• 厣yǎnoperculum (Latin: little lid); a covering flap (in various branches of anatomy)

Characters that look like 魇

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

• 腐fǔdecay; rotten
• 霍huò(literary) suddenly
• 篝gōubamboo frame for drying clothes; bamboo cage
• 麾huīsignal flag; to signal
• 蒐sōu(literary) madder (Rubia cordifolia); (literary) to hunt during spring
• 擞sǒuused in 抖擞

Sounds the same

Read yǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 眼eye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 演to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out…
• 衍to spread out; to develop; to overflow
• 掩to cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc)…
• 琰gem; glitter of gems
• 广"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序…
• 鼹mole
• 偃to lie supine; to stop; to fall down
• 奄suddenly; abruptly; hastily
• 俨majestic; dignified
• 兖used in 兖州
• 弇to cover; trap