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婵

嬋
chán
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 graceful; lovely (of a woman)
  2. 2 the moon (poetic, in 婵娟)

Examples

但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。
Dànyuàn rén chángjiǔ, qiānlǐ gòng chánjuān.
May we live long and share the same bright moon, though far apart.
那女子体态婵娟。
Nà nǚzǐ tǐtài chánjuān.
The girl moved with a slender, graceful air.

Tips

history
Used in 婵娟 (chánjuān), which means a graceful beauty and, by extension, the bright moon. The line 千里共婵娟 is from a famous Mid-Autumn poem by the Song poet Su Shi, wishing distant loved ones can share the same moon.

Components

radical
女 nǚ
woman; female
The woman radical 女 on the left fits the meaning: a graceful, beautiful woman, the original sense before it came to also mean the moon.
phonetic
单 dān
single (phonetic)
单 (dān, single) sits on the right as the sound element, its reading shifted to chán. The same phonetic appears in 蝉 (cicada) and 禅 (Zen).

Stroke Order

婵 chán