tuán

roll around with hand

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

hand

專 sound component

  Sound component

zhuān

  

monopolize

Evolution

摶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
摶 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
摶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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tuán

roll around with hand; model; to roll up into a ball with one's hands; spiral; circle; variant of |[tuán]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤon

dwan

tuán

round; make round


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4659th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+6476

Shuowen

“摶,圜也。从手,專聲。”


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