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cán

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cán Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
cán | can2
English translation
ashamed, humiliated; shameful

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About cán

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Number of strokes

14

Traditional form

cán

Contains the radical

xīn

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

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Etymology of cán

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

忄斬

Semantic compound

xīn

Phonetic compound

zhǎn

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. xīn represents the meaning and zhǎn represents the sound. Simplified form of cán .

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Words with cán

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
惭愧 cánkuì ashamed慚愧
cán ashamed
大言不惭 dà yán bù cán to talk big大言不慚
自惭形秽 zì cán xíng huì to feel inferior自慚形穢
羞惭 xiū cán a disgrace羞慚

cán Decomposition & Compounds

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