堰
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weir
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How 堰 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 匽 (phonetic, yǎn)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 匽
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 匽 (yǎn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 匽 sound component | yǎn | to hide, to repress; to bend |
| 偃 | yǎn | to cease, to lay down, to lay off |
| 郾 | yǎn | a county in Henan province |
| 揠 | yà | to weed out, to pull up, to eradicate |
Words containing 堰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兵来将敌，水来土堰 | bīng lái jiàng dí , shuǐ lái tǔ yàn | counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call fo… |
| 都江堰市 | Dū jiāng yàn Shì | Dujiangyan, a county-level city in Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 十堰市 | Shí yàn Shì | Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] |
| 都江堰 | Dū jiāng yàn | Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site; see 都江堰… |
| 堰塞湖 | yàn sè hú | barrier lake; landslide dam; dammed lake |
| 十堰 | Shí yàn | see 十堰市[Shi2 yan4 Shi4] |
| 姜堰区 | Jiāng yàn Qū | Jiangyan, a district of Taizhou City 泰州市[Tai4 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu |
| 围堰 | wéi yàn | a cofferdam |
| 塘堰 | táng yàn | irrigation pond or dam |
| 堰蜓座 | Yàn tíng zuò | Chamaeleon (constellation) |
| 姜堰 | Jiāng yàn | see 姜堰區|姜堰区[Jiang1 yan4 Qu1] |