涓
brook; to select
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,146 U+6D93
How 涓 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 肙 (phonetic, yuān)
components: 氵 肙
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 肙
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 肙 (yuān) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肙 sound component | yuān | a small worm; to twist; to surround; empty |
| 鹃 | juān | cuckoo |
| 捐 | juān | to give, to donate; to give up, to renounce |
| 娟 | juān | beautiful, graceful |
| 绢 | juàn | a kind of thick stiff silk |
| 狷 | juàn | rash, irritable, impulsive, impetuous |
| 蜎 | yuān | mosquito larva |
Words containing 涓
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 刘涓子鬼遗方 | Liú Juān zǐ guǐ yí fāng | Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼 |
| 涓埃之力 | juān āi zhī lì | negligible force (idiom); tiny force |
| 涓滴归公 | juān dī guī gōng | every drop returns to the public good (idiom); not one penny is misused |
| 刘涓子 | Liú Juān zǐ | Liu Juanzi, legendary alchemist and creator of magic potions |
| 涓吉 | juān jí | to choose an auspicious day |
| 涓埃 | juān āi | tiny stream of dust; tiny things; negligible |
| 涓滴 | juān dī | tiny stream; trickle; drops; tiny trickle of funds |
| 庞涓 | Páng Juān | Pang Juan (-342 BC), military leader and political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱… |
| 涓涓 | juān juān | a trickle; tiny stream; sluggish; to flow sluggishly |