涎 (xián)
Saliva; spittle (formal).
How 涎 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 涎
- Simplified
- 涎 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- 廴 long stride
- ㇒ N/A
- 止 stop
Common words using 涎
- 垂涎 chuíxián
- to water at the mouth; to drool
- 垂涎欲滴 chuíxiányùdī
- to drool with desire (idiom); to envy; to hunger for
- 垂涎三尺 chuíxiánsānchǐ
- to drool (over) (idiom); to yearn for; to covet
- 龍涎香 lóngxiánxiāng
- ambergris
涎 in a sentence
看到滿桌的美食，他忍不住垂涎三尺。
Kàndào mǎn zhuō de měishí, tā rěnbúzhù chuíxiánsānchǐ.
“Seeing the table full of delicious food, he couldn't help but drool.”
How common is 涎?
涎 is the 3,762nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.7% of all running text.
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