Skip to content
Inkstone
Sign in

suān
HSK 4freq #3361

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

suān
  1. 1.sour
  2. 2.tart
  3. 3.sick at heart
  4. 4.grieved
  5. 5.sore
  6. 6.aching
  7. 7.pedantic
  8. 8.impractical
  9. 9.to make sarcastic remarks about sb
  10. 10.an acid

CC-CEDICT · CC BY-SA

Wiktionary

  1. 1.sour; tart
  2. 2.acid
  3. 3.vinegar
  4. 4.sick at heart; grieved; sad
  5. 5.stingy; miserly
  6. 6.narrow-minded; pedantic
  7. 7.spoiled; rancid
  8. 8.to satirize; to ridicule
  9. 9.jealous; envious
  10. 10.a surname

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sloːn): semantic 酉 + phonetic 夋 (OC *sʰlun). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səwr (“sour; be acid”) (STEDT, under *suːr ⪤ *swaːr). Cognate with Mizo thûr (“acid; sour”).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Stroke order

Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

Sentences from Tatoeba · CC-BY 2.0 FR

More examples & usage (AI)

Synonyms

Antonyms

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Derived terms

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Related words