wān

cut

Components
宛 sound component

  Sound component

wǎn

  

winding

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

knife

Evolution

剜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wān

cut, cut out, pick out, scoop out; to scoop out; to gouge out

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4671st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+525C

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“剜,削也。从刀,宛聲。”


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