juǎn
curl, roll up
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 卷 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 捲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
roll | ||
to be drawn into | ||
test paper | ||
questionnaire | ||
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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