颤
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to tremble; to shiver; to shake; to vibrate; Taiwan pr. [zhan4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 頁 +13
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 顫
- Common rank
- #2,027
- Unicode
- U+98A4
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
tremble · Heisig RSH #1867
Mr. Hyde + head
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 颤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自动体外除颤器 | AED (automated external defibrillator) | |
| 心房颤动 | atrial fibrillation | |
| 心室颤动 | ventricular fibrillation (V-fib), abbr. to 室顫|室颤[shi4 chan4] | |
| 心惊胆颤 | see 心驚膽戰|心惊胆战[xin1 jing1 dan3 zhan4] | |
| 胆颤心惊 | panic-stricken | |
| 胆惊心颤 | see 心驚膽戰|心惊胆战[xin1 jing1 dan3 zhan4] | |
| 惊心胆颤 | frightening; frightened (idiom) | |
| 舌尖颤音 | alveolar trill (e.g. Russian r sound) | |
| 电颤琴 | vibraphone (music) | |
| 颤动 | to vibrate; to quiver | |
| 发颤 | to shiver | |
| 打颤 | to shiver; to tremble | |
| 震颤素 | tremorine (drug inducing shivering) | |
| 颤音 | vibrato (of stringed instrument); trill (in phonetics) | |
| 颤声 | trill (of voice); see also 顫聲|颤声[zhan4 sheng1] | |
| 颤声 | trembling voice; see also 顫聲|颤声[chan4 sheng1] | |
| 房颤 | atrial fibrillation (abbr. for 心房顫動|心房颤动[xin1 fang2 chan4 dong4]) | |
| 去颤 | to defibrillate | |
| 冷颤 | variant of 冷戰|冷战[leng3 zhan5] | |
| 室颤 | ventricular fibrillation (V-fib), abbr. for 心室顫動|心室颤动[xin1 shi4 chan4 dong4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 亶 — compare how they read.