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Meaning of 堰

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Pinyin: yàn
English Definition: weir
Chinese Definition:
①挡水的堤坝:堤堰。堰塘。都江堰(在中国四川省,是闻名中外的古代水利工程,已有两千多年的历史)。
Total strokes: 12; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (earth) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ ] soil, earth; items made of earth
    • [ yǎn ] to hide, to repress; to bend
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Example Words
围堰 wéi yàn a cofferdam
塘堰 táng yàn irrigation pond or dam
都江堰 jiāng yàn Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site; Dujiangyan county level city in Chengdu 成都 , Sichuan
都江堰市 jiāng yàn shì Dujiangyan county level city in Chengdu 成都 , Sichuan
堰塞湖 yàn dammed lake; lake formed by landslip or lava flow
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Example Sentences
1
Preparing a floating bridge on site of the to-be overflow dam.
2
They shot some pretty weirs and rapids .
3
She bid me take life easy , as the grass grows on the weirs .
4
The river-blocking landslide appears near the upper left corner of this image.
5
Continuously monitor, display, totalize and data log flow through any flume or weir.