堰
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weir
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 土 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 堰
- Common rank
- #3,049
- Unicode
- U+5830
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 堰
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兵来将敌，水来土堰 | counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call fo… | |
| 都江堰市 | Dujiangyan, a county-level city in Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 十堰市 | Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] | |
| 都江堰 | Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site; see 都江堰… | |
| 堰塞湖 | barrier lake; landslide dam; dammed lake | |
| 十堰 | see 十堰市[Shi2 yan4 Shi4] | |
| 姜堰区 | Jiangyan, a district of Taizhou City 泰州市[Tai4 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 围堰 | a cofferdam | |
| 塘堰 | irrigation pond or dam | |
| 堰蜓座 | Chamaeleon (constellation) | |
| 姜堰 | see 姜堰區|姜堰区[Jiang1 yan4 Qu1] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 匽 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 匽 sound part | to hide, to repress; to bend | |
| 偃 | to cease, to lay down, to lay off | |
| 郾 | a county in Henan province | |
| 揠 | to weed out, to pull up, to eradicate |