wǎn
pull
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 免 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 輓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to save | ||
to retrieve | ||
to pull | ||
to detain | ||
to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.6931% of movies
1991st most common character in movies
2222nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F13 |
Shuowen | “輓，引之也。从車，免聲。” |
Sources
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