lǎn

grasp

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

hand

览 sound component

  Sound component

lǎn

  

look at

Evolution

揽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
揽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
揽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
揽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
揽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lǎn

grasp, take hold of; monopolize; to monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc); to take on (responsibility etc); to canvass

Most common words with 揽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to seize

招揽

to attract (customers)

包揽

to monopolize

一揽子

all-inclusive

承揽

to contract for an entire project

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9862% of movies

3075th most common character in movies

2807th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+63FD


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