窜

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to flee; to scuttle; to exile or banish; to amend or edit

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

Simplified form of 竄; a mouse 鼠 running out of its hole 穴

Components 穴串

scurry · Heisig RSH #2362

穴 hole + shish kebab

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
流窜犯	liú cuàn fàn	criminal at large
抱头鼠窜	bào tóu shǔ cuàn	to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously
窜红	cuàn hóng	to become suddenly popular; suddenly all the rage
点窜	diǎn cuàn	to reword; to edit a text
流窜	liú cuàn	to roam all over the place; to go into every nook and corner; to infiltrate; (of criminals…
逃窜无踪	táo cuàn wú zōng	to disperse and flee, leaving no trace
乱窜	luàn cuàn	to flee in disarray; to scatter
窜改	cuàn gǎi	to alter; to modify; to change; to tamper
窜犯	cuàn fàn	to raid; an intrusion (of the enemy, or bandit groups)
鼠窜	shǔ cuàn	to scamper off; to scurry off like a frightened rat
窜升	cuàn shēng	to rise rapidly; to shoot up
窜访	cuàn fǎng	(derog.) (of a prominent figure) to visit (another country) (used when one disapproves of …
窜逃	cuàn táo	to flee in disorder; to scurry off
逃窜	táo cuàn	to run away; to flee in disarray
奔窜	bēn cuàn	(of people or animals) to flee helter-skelter; to scatter; (of floodwater, an idea etc) to…
窜稀	cuàn xī	(coll.) to have diarrhea
窜扰	cuàn rǎo	to invade and harass
窜踞	cuàn jù	to flee in disorder and encamp somewhere

These characters use 窜 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
窜 sound part	cuàn	to run away; to expel; to revise, to edit
蹿	cuān	to jump, to leap; to gush, to spurt
镩	cuān	iron, pick, poker
撺	cuān	rush, hurry; to stir up, to urge; to fling, to throw