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rán

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rán Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
rán | ran2
English translation
mustache, beard

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About rán

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

rán

Contains the radical

biāo

Part of speech

Noun morpheme / 名语素 Míng yǔsù

Learning hint

hair

Etymology of rán

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

髟冉

Semantic compound

biāo

Phonetic compound

rǎn

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. biāo represents the meaning and rǎn represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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Example sentences using rán

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de Hóng rán rǎn Chéng le 紫色 zǐ sè .

His red whiskers were dyed of a purple hue.

Words with rán

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
rán beard rán
髯口 rán kou artificial beard worn by Chinese opera actors髯口 rán kou

rán Decomposition & Compounds

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