juǎn

curl, roll up

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

卷 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

juǎnjuàn

  

curl, roll

Evolution

捲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
捲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

juǎn

curl, roll up; curly, rolled up

() 

juǎn

to roll (up); to sweep up; to carry on; roll

Most common words with 捲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

roll

卷入

to be drawn into

试卷

test paper

问卷

questionnaire

龙卷风

tornado

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 30.0336% of movies

1196th most common character in movies

1016th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6372

Shuowen

“捲,气勢也。从手,卷聲。《國語》曰:‘有捲勇。’一曰捲收也。”


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