lǎn
grasp
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 覽 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 攬
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to seize | ||
to attract (customers) | ||
to monopolize | ||
all-inclusive | ||
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 | 24 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+652C |
Shuowen | “擥,撮持也。从手,監聲。” |
Sources
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