庵
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hut; small temple; nunnery
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 广 +8
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 庵
- Common rank
- #3,237
- Unicode
- U+5EB5
Formation & memory
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How 庵 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A building 广 where people remain 奄; 奄 also provides the pronunciation
Words with 庵
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 田家庵区 | Tianjia'an, a district of Huainan City 淮南市[Huai2 nan2 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 西来庵 | Xilai Temple (Tainan, Taiwan) | |
| 田家庵 | see 田家庵區|田家庵区[Tian2 jia1 an1 Qu1] | |
| 庵摩落迦果 | see 餘甘子|余甘子[yu2 gan1 zi3] | |
| 京都念慈庵 | King-to Nin Jiom, or just Nin Jiom, manufacturer of 枇杷膏[pi2 pa2 gao1] cough medicine | |
| 庵摩勒 | see 餘甘子|余甘子[yu2 gan1 zi3] | |
| 施耐庵 | Shi Nai'an (1296-1371), author of Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Z… | |
| 庵堂 | Buddhist nunnery |