冠 (guān)
crown/hat/crest
How 冠 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 冖 — cover
- Traditional
- 冠
- Simplified
- 冠 (unchanged)
Components
- 冖 cover
- 二 two
- 儿 legs
- 寸 thumb
冠 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- guàn
- surname Guan
- guān
- hat; crown; crest; cap
Common words using 冠
- 冠軍 guànjūn
- champion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 皇冠 huángguān
- crown (headgear)
- 衣冠 yīguān
- hat and clothes; attire
- 冠冕堂皇 guānmiǎntánghuáng
- high-sounding; dignified; pompous (idiom)
- 冠軍賽 guànjūnsài
- championship
- 奪冠 duóguàn
- to seize the crown; fig. to win a championship; to win gold medal
- 王冠 wángguān
- crown
- 冠以 guànyǐ
- to label; to call
- 冠冕 guānmiǎn
- royal crown; official hat; official
- 冠子 guānzi
- crest; crown
- 冠心病 guānxīnbìng
- coronary heart disease
- 冠狀 guānzhuàng
- coronary; crown-shaped
冠 in a sentence
那位選美冠軍頭上戴著漂亮的皇冠。
Nà wèi xuǎnměi guànjūn tóushàng dàizhe piàoliàng de huángguān.
“That beauty pageant champion is wearing a beautiful crown on her head.”
How common is 冠?
冠 is the 1,711th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.9% of all running text.
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