奸
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wicked; crafty; traitor; variant of 姦|奸[jian1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 女 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 奸
- Common rank
- #1,247
- Unicode
- U+5978
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 奸
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无奸不商 | all businessmen are evil (idiom) | |
| 集体强奸 | gang rape | |
| 作奸犯科 | to flout the law | |
| 奸人 | crafty scoundrel; villain | |
| 通奸 | adultery; to commit adultery | |
| 奸民 | a scoundrel; a villain | |
| 奸情 | adultery | |
| 强奸罪 | rape | |
| 内奸 | undiscovered traitor; enemy within one's own ranks | |
| 奸夫 | male adulterer | |
| 老奸巨滑 | variant of 老奸巨猾[lao3 jian1 ju4 hua2] | |
| 鸡奸 | variant of 雞姦|鸡奸[ji1 jian1] | |
| 鸡奸 | sodomy; anal intercourse; buggery | |
| 奸商 | profiteer; crooked merchant | |
| 奸计 | evil plan; evil schemes | |
| 视奸 | (neologism) to obsessively monitor sb's social media posts (orthographic borrowing from Ja… | |
| 奸官 | a treacherous official; a mandarin who conspires against the state | |
| 指奸 | to finger-rape; digital rape | |
| 强奸犯 | rapist | |
| 强奸 | to rape |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 干 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干 sound part | arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade | |
| 杆 | cane, pole, stick | |
| 汗 | perspiration, sweat | |
| 刊 | publication, periodical; to publish, to print | |
| 肝 | liver | |
| 赶 | to pursue, to overtake; to hurry; to expel | |
| 竿 | bamboo pole; penis | |
| 轩 | pavilion; carriage; balcony | |
| 鼾 | to snore loudly | |
| 矸 | cliff; rock | |
| 邗 | an ancient place in the state of Wu | |
| 旰 | sunset, dusk; evening | |
| 犴 | wild dog; jail, lock-up | |
| 豻 | prison, jail; a wild dog | |
| 酐 | anhydride |