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蟬

  • chán (chan²) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄔㄢˊ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • san² Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • sim⁴ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • sin⁴ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • sen⁴ Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • cen² Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • sàm Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • chhàm Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • sam² Hakka, 梅縣, 客家話拼音
  • can¹ Jin, Wiktionary specific
  • cǎng Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • ǐng Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • sièng Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • siân Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • chûn Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • siâm Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • siam⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • siang⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • siêng⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • sung⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ⁶zoe Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • xyenn² Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • shenn² Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • chán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • chán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • chʻan² Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • chán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • charn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh

Where it comes from

形聲漢字（上古 *djan）：意符 虫 (“昆蟲”) + 聲符 單 (上古 *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans) 。

釋義 蟺

  1. 半翅目蟬科（Cicadidae）昆蟲總稱 飲而不食者，蟬也；不飲不食者，蜉蝣也。
  2. literary 薄如蟬翼的絲綢
  3. literary 蟬形狀的裝飾品
  4. literary 繼續不斷 蟬聯

Similar: 蜩, 季鳥兒, 馬季, 伏天兒, 自拉子, 知了, 知了兒, 伏涼兒, 唧了兒, 麻唧了兒, 惹兒惹兒, 消息, 稍錢兒, 截了, 截溜兒, 遮了兒, 截溜, 馬即了兒, 知老兒, 姐了, 吱嘮嘮, 唧了子, 唧了, 麥知了, 馬唧了兒, 知拉子, 蛈蛚, 即了子, 秋蟬, 蟬子

Thesaurus

釋義

Similar: 蜩, 季鳥兒, 馬季, 伏天兒, 自拉子, 知了, 知了兒, 伏涼兒, 唧了兒, 麻唧了兒, 惹兒惹兒, 消息, 稍錢兒, 截了, 截溜兒, 遮了兒, 截溜, 馬即了兒, 知老兒, 姐了, 吱嘮嘮, 唧了子, 唧了, 麥知了, 馬唧了兒, 知拉子, 蛈蛚, 即了子, 秋蟬, 蟬子

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"蟬." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%9F%AC.

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {蟬},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%9F%AC},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}