鞅
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martingale (part of a horse's harness); used in 鞅鞅[yang1 yang1]
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 革 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鞅
- Common rank
- #3,432
- Unicode
- U+9785
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Formation & memory
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Words with 鞅
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 商鞅变法 | Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國|秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the … | |
| 逸尘断鞅 | lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness; fig. to ride like the wind (idiom) | |
| 商鞅 | Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国[Q… | |
| 牛鞅 | wooden yoke for a draft ox | |
| 鞅牛 | ox harnessed for plowing | |
| 鞅掌 | (literary) busy (with work etc) | |
| 鞅鞅 | dissatisfied; displeased; aggrieved |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 央 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 央 sound part | central; to beg; to run out | |
| 英 | petal, flower, leaf; brave, heroic; English | |
| 映 | to project; to reflect; to shine | |
| 秧 | shoots, sprouts; young rice plants | |
| 盎 | pot, cup, bowl; abundant | |
| 殃 | misfortune, disaster, calamity | |
| 鸯 | female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) | |
| 泱 | great, expansive; agitated | |
| 怏 | discontented, dispirited, sad |