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弯

wān

bend

Simplified form of 彎. Phonosemantic compound. 弓 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.

Components
亦 simplified component

亦  Simplified component

yì

  

also

Shorthand for the phonetic 䜌 component in the traditional character 彎.

弓 meaning component

弓  Meaning component

gōng

  

bow

Evolution

弯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
弯 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
弯 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

弯 (彎) 

wān

bend, curve; to bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in the road etc); CL:道[dào]

Most common words with 弯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

弯

bent

转弯

to turn

弯曲

to bend

弯腰

to stoop

拐弯

to go round a curve

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

湾

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 12.8144% of movies

1842nd most common character in movies

1662nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

彎

Unicode

U+5F2F


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