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鸢

yuān

Character Traditional 鳶

What 鸢 means

1. kite (small hawk)

Words starting with 鸢

• 鸢尾yuān wěiIricdaceae, the iris family
• 鸢尾花yuān wěi huāiris (family Iridaceae)

Words containing 鸢

• 栗鸢lì yuān(bird species of China) Brahminy kite (Haliastur indus)
• 纸鸢zhǐ yuānkite
• 黑鸢hēi yuān(bird species of China) black kite (Milvus migrans)
• 黑翅鸢hēi chì yuān(bird species of China) black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus)

Characters that look like 鸢

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

• 美měibeautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify
• 卷juànscroll; book; volume
• 吴Wúsurname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai…
• 茉mòused in 茉莉
• 茧jiǎn(bound form) cocoon; (bound form) callus (variant of 趼
• 甭béngcontracted form of 不用

Sounds the same

Read yuān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 冤injustice; grievance; wrong
• 渊deep pool; deep; profound
• 鸳mandarin duck
• 眢inflamed eyelids; parched
• 惌to bear a grudge against
• 棩crooked (tree)
• 箢used in 箢箕; Taiwan pr. wǎn
• 鹓firebird (mythology)
• 肙a small worm; to twist; to surround
• 蜎larva of mosquito
• 渕variant of 渊
• 囦old variant of 渊