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涮

cjk unified ideograph-6dae

Chinese character 涮

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涮 starts with a quick swish through water and extends to brief broth-cooking. 涮羊肉 is a hot-pot dish; 涮人 may sound accusatory, as if someone is fooling you. Alone, 涮 needs surrounding Chinese to disambiguate.

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What 涮 means

涮 means rinsing, quick-boiling food, or fooling someone.

The Guangyun, a Song dynasty dictionary, glosses 涮 as washing; the earlier Shuowen Jiezi, a dictionary of character forms, has no entry.

Food use is neutral; 涮人 is colloquial and can sound accusatory.

Who writes 涮

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Briefly cook sliced meat in broth, then eat it with sauce.

Combination ideas

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Beijing-style mutton hot pot, cooked briefly in broth.
A hot-pot meal built around briefly boiled ingredients.

How to type or find 涮

Search it as
shuan · shuan4 · 涮人 · 开涮 · 涮羊肉 · 涮锅子 · 涮洗
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Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 6DAE, then AltX to get 涮.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-6dae”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 6dae, then Enter or Space.
HTML
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CSS
\6DAE
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HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\6DAE";
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URL encoded
%E6%B6%AE
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes

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