涎
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saliva
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 水 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 涎
- Common rank
- #2,836
- Unicode
- U+6D8E
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Formation & memory
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Words with 涎
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 龙涎香 | ambergris | |
| 垂涎三尺 | to drool (over) (idiom); to yearn for; to covet; to crave | |
| 染指垂涎 | lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth | |
| 涎水 | saliva | |
| 黏涎子 | saliva; dribble | |
| 流涎 | (literary) to salivate; to drool; (fig.) to crave sth hungrily | |
| 垂涎欲滴 | to drool with desire (idiom); to envy; to hunger for | |
| 馋涎欲滴 | lit. to drool with desire (idiom); fig. to hunger for; greedy | |
| 馋涎欲垂 | see 饞涎欲滴|馋涎欲滴[chan2 xian2 yu4 di1] | |
| 垂涎 | to drool; to salivate; (fig.) to covet; to desire greedily | |
| 黏涎 | saliva; slobber; (coll.) long-winded; meandering | |
| 涎沫 | spittle |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 延 — compare how they read.