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鼋

yuán

Character Traditional 黿

What 鼋 means

1. sea turtle

Words starting with 鼋

• 鼋鱼yuán yúsoft-shelled turtle; also termed 鳖

Characters built on 元

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

• 远yuǎnfar; distant; remote
• 园yuánland used for growing plants; site used for public recreation…
• 阮ruǎnruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
• 沅YuánYuan river in Guizhou and Hunan
• 朊ruǎnprotein
• 蚖yuánProtura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod); variant of 螈, salamander; newt

Sounds the same

Read yuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 元currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…
• 员(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity; (bound form) member…
• 原former; original; primary
• 园land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation…
• 圆circle; round; circular
• 源root; source; origin
• 援to help; to assist; to aid
• 缘cause; reason; karma
• 辕shaft of a cart or carriage; (bound form) entrance gate of a military camp or yamen…
• 袁long robe (old)
• 猿ape
• 媛used in 婵媛