Chinese Character Wiki

顽

wán

obstinate

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 元 represents the sound. Simplified form of 頑.

Components
页 meaning component

页  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

page

元 sound component

元  Sound component

yuán

  

first

Evolution

顽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
顽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

顽 (頑) 

wán

obstinate, stubborn; recalcitrant; mischievous; obstinate; to play; stupid; stubborn; naughty

Most common words with 顽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

顽强

tenacious

顽固

stubborn

顽皮

naughty

顽童

urchin

顽

mischievous

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 6.8877% of movies

2348th most common character in movies

2024th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

頑

Unicode

U+987D


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