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huān

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huān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
huān | huan1
English translation
badger

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About huān

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Number of strokes

20

Traditional form

Contains the radical

quǎn

Part of speech

Isolated morpheme / 语素 yǔ sù Yǔsù

Learning hint

animal

Etymology of huān

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

犭雚

Semantic compound

quǎn

Phonetic compound

guàn

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. quǎn represents the meaning and guàn represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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Example sentences using huān

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huān 大步流星 dà bù liú xīng de kuà jìn 房间 fángjiān .

The Badger strode heavily into the room.

狐狸 hú li huān 黄鼠狼 huáng shǔ láng 白鼬 zài 这里 zhè lǐ hěn 常见 cháng jiàn

Fox, badger, weasel and stoat are regularly seen here.

Words with huān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
huān variant of huān [huān]
狼獾 láng huān wolverine (Gulo gulo), also named 貂熊 diāo xióng [diāo​xióng]狼獾 láng huān
狗獾 gǒu huān badger狗獾 gǒu huān

huān Decomposition & Compounds

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