冕
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crown in the form of a horizontal board with hanging decorations; imperial crown
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 冂 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 冕
- Common rank
- #2,663
- Unicode
- U+5195
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Formation & memory
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Words with 冕
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冕宁县 | Mianning, a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 … | |
| 南冕座 | Corona Australis (constellation) | |
| 日冕层 | stellar corona | |
| 北冕座 | Corona Borealis (constellation) | |
| 冠冕堂皇 | high-sounding; dignified; pompous (idiom) | |
| 日冕仪 | coronagraph | |
| 冕柳莺 | (bird species of China) eastern crowned warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus) | |
| 日冕 | stellar corona | |
| 加冕 | to crown; coronation | |
| 冕宁 | see 冕寧縣|冕宁县[Mian3 ning2 Xian4] | |
| 冕雀 | (bird species of China) sultan tit (Melanochlora sultanea) | |
| 卫冕 | to defend the crown (in sports championship) | |
| 暗冕鹪莺 | (bird species of China) rufescent prinia (Prinia rufescens) | |
| 冕冠 | see 冕[mian3] | |
| 冠冕 | royal crown; official hat; official; leader; chief; elegant and stately | |
| 轩冕 | (literary) curtained carriage and ceremonial cap (symbols of a senior official); (fig.) di… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 免 — compare how they read.