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鳝

shàn

Character Traditional 鱔

What 鳝 means

1. Chinese yellow eel

Other readings

鳝 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• shànvariant of {鳝|shàn}

Example sentences

• 我的气垫船装满了鳝鱼
  Wǒ de qìdiànchuán zhuāngmǎn le shànyú
  My hovercraft is full of eels.
• 我的气垫船满是鳝鱼。
  Wǒ de qìdiànchuán mǎn shì shànyú.
  My hovercraft is full of eels.

Words starting with 鳝

• 鳝鱼shàn yúeel

Words containing 鳝

• 黄鳝huáng shànAsian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)

Characters built on 善

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

• 膳shànmeals
• 缮shànto repair; to mend; to rewrite
• 鄯shànused in 鄯善
• 蟮shànused in 蛐蟮

Sounds the same

Read shàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 善good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed
• 扇fan; sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth; classifier for doors, windows etc
• 擅without authority; to usurp; to arrogate to oneself
• 膳meals
• 禅to abdicate
• 缮to repair; to mend; to rewrite
• 赡to support; to provide for
• 蟺earthworm
• 汕bamboo fish trap; used in names of places connected with Shantou 汕头
• 讪to mock; to ridicule; to slander
• 疝hernia
• 嬗(literary) to go through successive changes; to evolve