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Kanji Detail for 涎 - "drool, flow"

  • Meaning

    涎 means "drool, flow."

    1. Drool - Saliva.

    2. Flow - For water to stream.

  • Four-character idioms with

    • 垂涎三尺 すいぜんさんじゃく Listen avid desire; drooling over (something); watering at the mouth
  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    saliva; slobber

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    saliva

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 涎[xian2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    saliva

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Mouth fluid. When people see delicious food, they drool (垂涎). Hence, things one desires are also called 垂涎 (to covet).
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