谙 — Chinese character
谙
ān
well-versed in, fully acquainted with
- Pinyin
- ān
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 讠 音
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 讠; sound component 音
- Traditional
- 諳
Common words with 谙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 深谙 (深諳) | shēn ān | to know (sth) very well; to be an expert in |
| 熟谙 (熟諳) | shú ān | to know sth fluently; well-versed |
| 谙熟 (諳熟) | ān shú | to be proficient in |
| 谙练 (諳練) | ān liàn | conversant; skilled |
| 不谙世故 (不諳世故) | bù ān shì gù | unworldly; unsophisticated |
| 不谙水性 (不諳水性) | bù ān shuǐ xìng | to not know how to swim; to not be a strong swimmer |
| 谙事 (諳事) | ān shì | (often used in the negative in describing a young person) to have an understanding of things; to know how the world works |
English words written with 谙
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.