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敛

liǎn

draw back, fold back; collect

Strokes
11
Level
HSK 7–9
Frequency
No. 3,529
Traditional
斂
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What 敛 means

(literary) to hold back; (literary) to restrain; to control (oneself); to collect; to gather; Taiwan pr. [lian4]; variant of 殓

Pictophonetic: semantic 攵 (strike), phonetic 佥

Made of 佥 + 攵

Words with 敛

敛 in a sentence

Characters that sound like 敛

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