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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- sun3
- English meanings
- to decrease, to lose, to damage, to harm, (coll.) to speak sarcastically, to deride, caustic, mean, one of the 64 trigrams of the Book of Changes (old)
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 扌; right 员.
Meaning & sound clues
扌 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “hand”.
员 is identified as the sound component (yuán). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 损.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
grandson; descendant
Example sentences
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Related words
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- 亏损
- 损人利己
- 损伤
- 损坏
- 损失
- 损害
- 磨损