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斂

liǎn

draw back, fold back; collect

Strokes
17
Radical
攴
HSK
—
Tone
3

Simplified form: 敛

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 敛, the simplified form of 斂. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 日本人普遍很内敛。

    Rì běn rén pǔ biàn hěn nèi liǎn

    Japanese people are generally very reserved.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 敛

  • 收敛shōu liǎn 1–3 to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish; to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc); to astringe; (math.) to converge