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鲟

xún

Character Traditional 鱘

What 鲟 means

1. sturgeon
2. Acipenser sturio

Example sentences

• 鲟鱼有时长得比一些它的捕食者还大，寿命甚至能超过50年。
  Sturgeons can sometimes live for over 50 years, growing so large that few predators hunt them.

Words starting with 鲟

• 鲟鱼xún yústurgeon

Characters that look like 鲟

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

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• 鲜xiānfresh; bright (in color); delicious
• 辞cíto resign; to dismiss; to decline
• 膀bǎngupper arm; wing
• 鲔wěilittle tuna; Euthynnus alletteratus
• 缨yīngtassel; sth shaped like a tassel (e.g. a leaf etc); ribbon

Sounds the same

Read xún, tone for tone, but written differently.

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• 巡to patrol; to make one's rounds; classifier for rounds of drinks
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• 恂sincere
• 荀(archaic) name of a plant mentioned in ancient texts…
• 洵truly; whirlpool
• 峋used in 嶙峋
• 珣(gem)
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