衍 (jin2 hin2 | yan3 ) : spread, breed

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衍

jin2 hin2

yan3

[1] spread; breed; overflow
[2] redundant; superfluous; abundant
[3] low-lying flatland; marsh; swamp

Jyutping jin2 is the standard reading; hin2, the variant.

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Stroke count: 9

Level: 3

Radical: (#144)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

衍

This word has been viewed 3890 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 31st Oct 2009 00:52

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敷衍 fu1 hin2 fu1 yan3 = apathetic; to muddle through

敷衍了事 fu1 hin2 liu5 si6 fu1 yan5 liao3 shi4 = muddle through one's work 國

敷衍塞責 fu1 hin2 sak1 zaak3 fu1 yan3 se4 ze2 = does a perfunctory job; to muddle through something

衍生 hin2 sang1 yan3 sheng1 = derive, derivative

衍生物 jin2 sang1 mat6 yan3 sheng1 wu4 = derivative

繁衍 faan4 jin2 fan2 yan3 = multilply; increase

孳衍 zi1 jin5 zi1 yan3 = proliferate; multiply; to grow in number

衍生產品 hin1 sang1 caan2 ban2 yan3 sheng1 chan3 pin3 = derivative products

Showing all 2 examples containing 衍

佢嘅態度好敷衍粵
His attitude is apathetic.

我平時做嘢好敷衍粵
I'm normally pretty apathetic about my work.
[You can also say 我平時做嘢做得好敷衍.]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 衍
Unicode code for this character: U+884d (off-site link)

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