阮
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ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 阜 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 阮
- Common rank
- #3,231
- Unicode
- U+962E
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Formation & memory
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Words with 阮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大阮 | daruan or bass lute, like pipa 琵琶 and zhongruan 中阮 but bigger and lower range | |
| 中阮 | zhongruan or alto lute, like pipa 琵琶 but bigger and lower range | |
| 阮安 | Nguyen An (1381-1453), aka Ruan An, Vietnamese architect and engineer, principal designer … | |
| 阮崇武 | Ruan Chongwu (1933-), third governor of Hainan | |
| 阮元 | scholar-official in the Qing dynasty (1764-1849) | |
| 阮琴 | see 阮[ruan3] | |
| 阮晋勇 | Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949-), prime minister of Vietnam 2006-2016 | |
| 阮咸 | see 阮[ruan3] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 元 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 元 sound part | first; dollar; origin; head | |
| 远 | distant, remote, far; profound | |
| 园 | garden, park; orchard | |
| 玩 | to play with, to joke, to entertain | |
| 完 | to complete, to finish, to settle; whole | |
| 顽 | stubborn, recalcitrant, obstinate | |
| 沅 | a river in western Hunan | |
| 芫 | a poisonous plant; Daphne genkwa | |
| 朊 | protein | |
| 蚖 | salamander, newt | |
| 鼋 | large turtle, sea turtle |