quán

fist

Components
龹 sound component

  Sound component

juǎn

  

to roll rice into ball

手 meaning component

  Meaning component

shǒu

  

hand

hand

Evolution

拳 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
拳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拳 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
拳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

quán

fist; various forms of boxing; boxing

Most common words with 拳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

fist

拳击

boxing

拳头

fist

拳王

boxing champion

跆拳道

taekwondo (Korean martial art)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-kro[n]

gjwen

quán

fist (< rolled-up hand)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.3612% of movies

1203rd most common character in movies

1784th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+62F3

Shuowen

“拳,手也。从手,聲。”


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