wān

bay

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

弯 sound component

  Sound component

wān

  

bend

Evolution

湾 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
湾 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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wān

a bay, cove, inlet, bend of stream; bay; gulf; to cast anchor; to moor (a boat)

Most common words with 湾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

台湾

Taiwan

bay

海湾

bay

港湾

natural harbor

墨西哥湾

Gulf of Mexico

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 6.7275% of movies

2093rd most common character in movies

855th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+6E7E


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