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Hanzi Character Search: 趁

8D81

 
take advantage of, avail oneself
Radical 𧺆
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 12
Mandarin reading chèn zhēn chén Cantonese reading can3
Japanese on reading chin Japanese kun reading ou
Korean reading cin cen Vietnamese reading sấn
Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ chèn luàn taó tuō ]    to run away in the confusion, to take advantage of the confusion to escape
   [ chèn shì ]    to take advantage of a favorable situation, to seize an opportunity
   [ chèn zaǒ ]    erhua variant of 趁早[chen4 zao3]
   [ chèn ]    to seize an opportunity, to take advantage of situation
   [ chèn tiě ]    to strike while the iron is hot
   [ chèn qián ]    variant of 稱錢|称钱[chen4 qian2]
   [ chèn ]    old variant of 趁[chen4]
⇒    [ tiě chèn ]    strike the iron while it's hot (idiom)

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