窜
to flee; to scuttle; to exile or banish; to amend or edit
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,525 U+7A9C
How 窜 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 竄; a mouse 鼠 running out of its hole 穴
How to remember it
scurry · Heisig RSH #2362
穴 hole + shish kebab
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 窜 as their sound component
These characters all use 窜 (cuàn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 窜 sound component | cuàn | to run away; to expel; to revise, to edit |
| 蹿 | cuān | to jump, to leap; to gush, to spurt |
| 镩 | cuān | iron, pick, poker |
| 撺 | cuān | rush, hurry; to stir up, to urge; to fling, to throw |
Words containing 窜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流窜犯 | liú cuàn fàn | criminal at large |
| 抱头鼠窜 | bào tóu shǔ cuàn | to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously |
| 窜红 | cuàn hóng | to become suddenly popular; suddenly all the rage |
| 点窜 | diǎn cuàn | to reword; to edit a text |
| 流窜 | liú cuàn | to roam all over the place; to go into every nook and corner; to infiltrate; (of criminals… |
| 逃窜无踪 | táo cuàn wú zōng | to disperse and flee, leaving no trace |
| 乱窜 | luàn cuàn | to flee in disarray; to scatter |
| 窜改 | cuàn gǎi | to alter; to modify; to change; to tamper |
| 窜犯 | cuàn fàn | to raid; an intrusion (of the enemy, or bandit groups) |
| 鼠窜 | shǔ cuàn | to scamper off; to scurry off like a frightened rat |
| 窜升 | cuàn shēng | to rise rapidly; to shoot up |
| 窜访 | cuàn fǎng | (derog.) (of a prominent figure) to visit (another country) (used when one disapproves of … |
| 窜逃 | cuàn táo | to flee in disorder; to scurry off |
| 逃窜 | táo cuàn | to run away; to flee in disarray |
| 奔窜 | bēn cuàn | (of people or animals) to flee helter-skelter; to scatter; (of floodwater, an idea etc) to… |
| 窜稀 | cuàn xī | (coll.) to have diarrhea |
| 窜扰 | cuàn rǎo | to invade and harass |
| 窜踞 | cuàn jù | to flee in disorder and encamp somewhere |